Laura Riding Quotes

In a social media age, it seems that everyone lives in their own reality and that when you give consideration to Newt Gingrich, he exists in an alternate reality, at some level, where the things he says are so diametrically opposed to the record.

People have different impressions of themselves, and where reality lies is somewhere in between.

I think Pirandello had something to say to people about what truth really is.

A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls... saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality?

You can tell so many facts that you never get to the truth

We think that - as kids, you know - that kids make up stories and live in a sort of fictional place, but that, as grown-ups, we tell the truth and live in fact. But, of course, the reality is we take the facts that we know, and then we fill in all the blanks.

Truth is an illusory notion.

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

What we think of as reality is a continuous synthesis of elements from a fixed hierarchy of a priori concepts and the ever changing data of the senses.

To the critical intelligence, nothing is left of absolute reality.

Your version of the truth is all that matters.

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.

In cases of major discrepancy its always reality thats got it wrong ... reality is frequently inaccurate.

It turns out that our notions of what a 'self' is and how it might feel fulfilled have no more objective status than most of the rest of reality. It seems we make ourselves up as we go along.

You say they create their own reality," said Veronika, "but what is reality?

Does the madman know he is mad? Or are the madmen those who insist o. Convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their own idea of reality?

In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen.

Reality is the completion of experience.

We're making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality.

To give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself.

Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?

It's so easy to get caught up in what people expect of you. Sometimes, you can just lose yourself.

There is a world of difference between facts and the truth. You can have so many facts that you don't deal with the truth. You never get to the truth. You have the places where, the people who, the times when, the reasons why, the methods how - blah blah. And never get to the human truth. The human truth is as elusive as the air. And as important as the air.

Reality has actually very little to do with truth; there is no necessary connection between the two.

The problem is we think we exist.