reality vs appearance Quotes

The attempt to make a distinction between recovery and reform is a narrowly conceived effort to substitute the appearance of reality for reality itself. When a man is convalescing from illness, wisdom dictates not only cure of the symptoms but also removal of their cause.

Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.

The painter has to unlearn the habit of thinking that things seem to have the color which common sense says they 'really' have, and to learn the habit of seeing things as they appear.

Instagram is just a highlight reel... Ten percent of the time, Chan and I have a lot of fun. Ninety percent, we're really boring.

The Constitution deals with substance, not shadows.

But I've never felt that being an actress is being in a comfortable place. It's seen from the outside that we're being driven in big cars and having these gorgeous suites and all of that. But come on, it's not about that.

A thing is never seen as it really is.

I'm absolutely convinced that this is a world of appearances, not reality. There's one reality and that's Light and Love. When some say, we create our own reality, I always demur and say, "Please, would you mind adjusting that a little bit? We create our own appearances." We become master of appearances and as we change our thought, we will see the appearances around us change. That gives us this huge sense of dominion and power and control over our world.

If nothing is the way it seems, then this life is just a haunted dream.

When appearance and reality coincide, philosophy and literary criticism find themselves with nothing to say.

People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.

Look in the mirror and one thing is sure: what we see is not who we are.

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things.

People see the celebrity lifestyle and assume everything is perfect, but we're just like everyone else.

But we're lost in a world of appearances now.

The audience knows the truth, the world is simple. It's miserable, solid all the way through. But if you could fool them, even for a second, then you can make them wonder, and then you got to see something really special.

It's human nature for people to expect people to be what they see on the screen.

I walk beneath your pens, and am not what I truly am, but what you'd prefer to imagine me.

The mathematician is in much more direct contact with reality. ... [Whereas] the physicist's reality, whatever it may be, has few or none of the attributes which common sense ascribes instinctively to reality. A chair may be a collection of whirling electrons.

When you reach a certain age, and people see you on television, they look at you and think, 'Wow! Everything must be great!' Well, everything isn't always great. You can be hailed on the street corner, but you still have to go home and take out the garbage.

...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

I am interested in the nature of things. The nature of something is quite different from the way it looks.

Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist.

We're not as happy as our Instagrams and Twitters make us out to be.

Because I'm in the media quite a lot now, everyone assumes that everything is fine. People forget I sleep on a mattress on the floor with my son in a house I share with five other people.