Illusion is the first of all pleasures. ~Voltaire
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. ~Philip K. Dick
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. ~Albert Einstein
Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling? ~M.C. Escher
No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. ~Samuel Johnson
Objectivity has about as much substance as the emperor's new clothes. ~Connie Miller
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces. ~Sigmund Freud
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. ~John Lennon
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion. ~Democritus
It must be hard to be a model, because you'd want to be like the photograph of you, and you can't ever look that way. ~Andy Warhol
Few people have the imagination for reality. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another. ~John Burroughs
Reality is not always probable, or likely. ~Jorge Luis Borges
Listening to both sides of a story will convince you that there is more to a story than both sides. ~Frank Tyger
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their "agreement," as falsity means their disagreement, with "reality." ~William James
I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything. ~John Steinbeck
Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him? ~Calvin and Hobbes
Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet. ~Edward Abbey
All the mind's activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality. ~Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past: Cities of the Plain
The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it. ~Francis Bacon
The formula "two and two make five" is not without its attractions. ~Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground, 1864
Reality is too much to take in heapfuls, but sprinkle it sparingly upon life's path and most can tread it lightly. ~Astrid Alauda
How reluctantly the mind consents to reality! ~Norman Douglas
There is a fine line between dreams and reality, it's up to you to draw it. ~B. Quilliam
Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check. ~M.C. Escher
There's something beautifully soothing about a fact - even (or perhaps especially) if we're not sure what it means. ~Daniel J. Boorstin
Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there. ~E.H. Gombrich, Art and Illusion, 1960
Cloquet hated reality but realized it was still the only place to get a good steak. ~Woody Allen
This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof. ~Neil Gaiman, Books of Magic III
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. ~Jessamyn West
Every time I close the door on reality it comes in through the windows. ~Jennifer Yane
Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. ~Jane Wagner
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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