REALITY

Related Subjects: Facts, Honesty, Life, Truth

1. It is a condition which confronts us—not a theory.—GROVER CLEVELAND
   

2. Reality is something that happens. Nothing just exists in its own right. There is nothing behind nature, though there is infinitely more in nature than we know at present.
   
   Our minds are real, but there was tter before there was mind.—J. B. S. HALDANE, I Believe
   

3. It is not ill, but it is very well be confronted with the ugly realities, the surviving savageries, that smug hypocrisy of civilization denies; for 'til we recognize them we shall not abate them, or even try to do so.—W. D. HOWELLS, Heroines of Fiction
   

4. There is not a world of thought opposed to or interfering with a world of things: we have everywhere the same reality under different aspects. Nature is one as well as uniform.—SIR FREDERICK POLLOCK
   

5. I am seeking only to face realities and to face them without soft concealments.—WOODROW WILSON