The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that read more

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know read more

The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. read more

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.

Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.

Reality is for those who lack imagination

Reality is for those who lack imagination

It takes only one other person to say it's so- one other point of reality to make something real.

It takes only one other person to say it's so- one other point of reality to make something real.

Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one

Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one