Quotes about Real and Unreal

All phenomena are real in some sense, unreal in some sense, meaningless in some sense, real and meaningless in some sense, unreal and meaningless in some sense, and real and unreal and meaningless in some sense. Votes: 5

Wetiko doesn't objectively exist, and yet, at the same time, it is not merely our projection or imagination. Instead of an either/or universe, where phenomena like wetiko are either real or unreal, there is an area in between in which it is both/and--both real and unreal at the same time. Votes: 4

I think there's more real in the unreal than there is in the real. Votes: 3

It's not about how much movement you do, how much interaction there is, it just reeks of credibility if it's real. If it's contrived, it seems to work for a while for the people who can't filter out the real and unreal. Votes: 3

The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is. Votes: 1

Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. Votes: 1

Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal. Votes: 1

All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one. Votes: 1

No matter how much you plan for it, the real thing seems curiously, well, unreal. Votes: 1

Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal Votes: 1

I look in the mirror. There's me. What's in the mirror is not real. So am I unreal? Votes: 1

Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself. Votes: 1

Quote: "To put it another way, by viewing it through an unreal lens, the world looks more real." - Haruki Murakami Votes: 1

We imagine that waking-life is real and that dream-life is unreal, but there does not seem to be any evidence for this belief. Votes: 1

Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come. Votes: 1

What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race. Votes: 1

Intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unreal trick and reality into a play. Votes: 1

My parents lived, breathed, ate and slept theatre. Emotions were right on the surface. Growing up, the unreal had as much importance as the real. Votes: 1

Fictional stories were written so that they seemed real, kind of like a well-executed lie. Fiction creates an unreal world that's better than the real one. Votes: 1

Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207 Votes: 1

The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Sometimes what is 'real' because it takes place in the physical world, like 9/11, is so unreal on the level of the soul. Then other things, which in terms of the physical world seem so magical and unbelievable, on the level of the soul seem very real. Votes: 1

The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, because it's only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. 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. Votes: 1

Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Votes: 0

The real does not die, the unreal never lived. Votes: 0

The more real you get, the more unreal things get. Votes: 0

Work on what is real rather than worry about what is unreal. Votes: 0

The real in me longs for peace. The unreal in me longs for power. Votes: 0

Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended Votes: 0

We miss the real by lack of attention, and create the unreal by excess of imagination. Votes: 0

We take that which is unreal to be real and that which is real to be unreal. Votes: 0

Twitter fascinates me because it's real. It feels kind of unreal, but it makes very real things happen. Votes: 0

To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical. Votes: 0

No one gives up on something until it turns on them, whether or not that thing is real or unreal. Votes: 0

Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself. Votes: 0

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition. Votes: 0

We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives. Votes: 0

The neurotic's strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so. Votes: 0

What is enquiry into the Truth? It is the firm conviction that the Self is real, and all, other than That, is unreal. Votes: 0

I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting. Votes: 0

Knowledge is not obtained through being absorbed in a book, it comes when you brush aside fantasies and sensuality, switching from the unreal to the real. Votes: 0

Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction. Votes: 0

Since things neither exist nor do not exist, are neither real nor unreal, are utterly beyond adopting and rejecting - one might as well burst out laughing. Votes: 0

We referenced fictional characters as if they were people to learn from. As if real-life people were too nebulous, too private and unreal for us to understand. Votes: 0

We human beings instinctively regard the seen world as the "real" world and the unseen world as the "unreal" world, but the Bible calls for almost the opposite. Votes: 0

What I thought was unreal now, for me, seems in some ways to be more real than what I think to be real, which seems now to be unreal Votes: 0

The boundaries we erect to divide heaven from earth, mind from matter, real from unreal are mere conveniences. Having made the boundaries, we can unmake them just as easily. Votes: 0

Once you are real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always. Votes: -1