Unreal Quotes

• One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

  Alvin Toffler

  Real, Anger, Society

  "Diving Into the Bitstream: Information Technology Meets Society in a Digital World". Book by M. Barry Dumas, p. 231, 2012.

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• There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.

  Hermann Hesse

  Life, Yoga, Reality

  "Nobel Prize Library: Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse".

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• People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like you're watching television -- you don't feel anything.

  Andy Warhol

  Strong, Real, People

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is.

  John Lennon

  Music, Real, Jazz

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• There is no reality except the one contained within us.

  Hermann Hesse

  Philosophy, Reality, Demian

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

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• Once, in an age, God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us, not a false imagining, an unreal character, but, looking through all the rubbish of our imperfections, loves in us the divine ideal of our nature, — loves, not the man that we are, but the angel that we may be.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Angel, Age, May

  "The Minister's Wooing".

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• The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it's only intangibles, ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Powerful, Real, Believe

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• It seems like the older I get, the more unreal the world becomes.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Reality, World, Seems

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists.

  Helen Schucman

  Real, Threatened

  Helen Schucman “A Course in Miracles - Manual For Teachers”, A Course in Miracles

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• Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Real, Matter, Spirit

  Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures 468:9 (1875)

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• Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law.

  June Jordan

  Brother, Lying, Writing

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• Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity -namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Life, Pain, Mistake

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• Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself.

  Helena

  Real, Enough, Conscious

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• I mean what they and their hired psychiatrists call delusional systems. Needless to say, ‘delusions’ are always officially defined. We do not have to worry about questions of real or unreal. They only talk out of expediency. It’s the system that matters. How the data arrange themselves inside it. Some are consistent, others fall apart.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Real, Fall, Mean

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• Lots of people will protest that it's quite unreal and that I'm out of my mind, but that's just too bad

  Claude Monet

  People, Mind, Criticism

  Claude Monet (1999). “Monet by himself: paintings, drawings, pastels, letters”

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• A lot of people in spiritual life use the awareness of difference, and the spiritual glorification of difference, as a justification to indulge in that which is ultimately unreal.

  Andrew Cohen

  Spiritual, Indulge In, Differences

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• The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Book, Men, Advice

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (2009). “The Path of the Law”, p.35, The Floating Press

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• There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.

  Harold Pinter

  Real, True Or False, True And False

  Harold Pinter (2013). “Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics 1948-2008”, p.218, Faber & Faber

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• I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it.

  Christopher Nolan

  Thinking, Becoming, Vague

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard -it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

  E. M. Forster

  Love, Men, Ideas

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• If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. If you do that, you can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Grateful, Thinking, People

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Perfect, Imagine, Choke

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Dream, People, Goes On

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• I can destroy a dance floor. I think life should be a musical. I always hate it when people watch a musical and they go, 'Oh, it's so unrealistic, no one just breaks into song in the middle of their day.' Yeah, they do- if they're me.

  Zachary Levi

  Music, Dance, Song

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• Any great and inspiring leader or organization that ever existed set out to do something completely unrealistic.

  Simon Sinek

  Organization, Leader, Inspiring Leader

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2014

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