Reality

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do

I do not see any other way of realizing our hopes about World Organization in five or six days. Even the Almighty took seven

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity

Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realising it

A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence

It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear as it is - infinite

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: The bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities

I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place