#reality

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity. ↗

— George Santayana

#dignity #dominates #end #exact #exact measure

It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#communication #essentially #illusion #imagine #incidental

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#ever #languages #reality #representing #same

It is not necessary to deny another's reality in order to affirm your own. ↗

— Anne Wilson Schaef

#another #deny #necessary #order #own

The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water. ↗

— Eugène Ionesco

#reality #dreams

Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#paradoxical #reality

So a lot of me is still a little kid, and I think that kind of helps alter my sense of reality - it makes me able to just become Belle every single night. ↗

— Christy Romano

#alter #become #belle #every #helps

The beliefs you hold strongly in your mind will become your dreams and in time become your reality. ↗

— Steven Redhead

#dreams #mind #reality #time #dreams

It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#accept #denial #i #just #reality

Reality continues to ruin my life. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#life #my life #reality #ruin