Quotes About Appearance Versus Reality

#1. Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!

Edward Abbey

#2. The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#3. When the reality of power has been surrendered, it's playing a dangerous game to seek to retain the appearance of it; the external aspect of vigor can sometimes support a debilitated body, but most often it manages to deal it the final blow.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#4. The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#5. Do you believe in an invisible reality behind appearances?

Dion Fortune

#6. Since the appearance of Christ, ethics can be concerned with only one thing: to partake in the reality of the fulfilled will of God.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#7. Man is an appearance, God is a reality.

Kedar Joshi

#8. One of my principal concerns is the contradiction between appearance and reality - illusion and reality. I try to set up an expectation of sorts and then contradict it.

Stuart Pearson Wright

#9. Wisdom, which is the habit of distinguishing appearance from reality.)

Peter Kreeft

#10. do not fear the tanker but the fuel that is in the tanker

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#11. Naturalistic art, as we know it, is an art which imitates the appearance of things, not as they are in reality, but as they appear at one moment from the point of view of a single spectator. This is the effect of perspective. Nothing of this sort existed in prehistory.

Sigfried Giedion

#12. When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?

Henry David Thoreau

#13. In its relation to the reality of daily life, the high culture of the past was many things opposition and adornment, outcry and resignation. But it was also the appearance of the realm of freedom: the refusal to behave.

Herbert Marcuse

#14. Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire.

Friedrich Schiller

#15. Sufficient unto the moment is the appearance of reality.

D.H. Lawrence

#16. But appearance and reality were different things, weren't they?

Kate Atkinson

#17. How strange that a girl could trouble your inmost soul so long as she kept her mouth shut, and that the moment she spoke the glamour could vanish as though it had never been.

Agatha Christie

#18. I always see that there's a - from a philosophical point of view - there's the appearance of things that everybody wants you to think is happening, then there's the reality underneath it.

Larry Bishop

#19. Collage is the noble conquest of the irrational, the coupling of two realities, irreconcilable in appearance, upon a plane which apparently does not suit them.

Max Ernst

#20. There definitely is an appearance issue, ... Now whether or not there's a reality issue, I don't know.

Jorge M. Perez

#21. If things look right on the surface the underside is rarely questioned. However, things may be great in reality, but if one perceives them to be amiss, it is difficult to change that perception.

Aleatha Romig

#22. All hat, no cattle ... doing whatever it took to keep up the appearance of wealth, when in reality he is no better off than anyone else. - Texas saying

Lisa Kleypas

#23. It was not until the appearance of cyberpunk in the 1980s that SF began to grapple in a broadly meaningful way with the reality of computers as something other than giant mainframes tended by crewcut IBM nerds.

Paul Di Filippo

#24. There is no death! Death is very much like sunset. It is only an appearance. For, when the sun sets here, it rises elsewhere. In reality, the sun never sets. Likewise, death is only an illusion, an appearance. For, what is death here is birth elsewhere. For life is endless.

Dada Vaswani

#25. All appearances are real and negatio; sophistical: All reality must be sensation.

Immanuel Kant

#26. If you seek the kernel, then you must break the shell. An likewise, if you would know the reality of Nature, you must destroy the appearance, and the farther you go beyond the appearance, the nearer you will be to the essence.

Meister Eckhart

#27. As [John Heartfield] was playing with the fire of appearance, reality took fire around him ... The scraps of photographs that he formerly manoeuvred for the pleasure of stupification, under his fingers began to signify.

Louis Aragon

#28. The diverse natures of men, combined with the necessity to satisfy in some manner the sentiment which desires them to be equal, has had the result that in the democracies they have endeavored to provide the appearance of power in the people and the reality of power in an elite.

Vilfredo Pareto

#29. Deny that lack has any place or reality in your
thought or your affairs and affirm plenty as the only
appearance. Praise what you have, be it ever so little,
and insist that it is constantly growing larger.

Charles Fillmore

#30. Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.

Murasaki Shikibu

#31. The end (goal) of art is to figure the hidden meaning of things and not their appearance; for in this profound truth lies their true reality, which does not appear in their external outlines.

Joseph Conrad

#32. He is too presumptuous about the inanities of appearances, poor realities gone for a toss.

Aporva Kala

#33. You are to draw not reality, but the appearance of reality!

William Morris Hunt

#34. Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality. The passage from logic is consummated. Thus are born ideologies, doctrines, and bloody farce.

Emile M. Cioran

#35. Where consciousness is concerned, the appearance is the reality.

John Searle

#36. Cucullus non facit monachum; that's as much to say, as I wear not motley in my brain.

William Shakespeare