Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
What a horror it would have been if the world was real, because if the world was real, it would be immortal.
We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.[Nous sommes tous obligés pour rendre la réalité supportable, d’entretenir en nous quelques petites folies.]
Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
To make abstractions hold in reality is to destroy reality.
Those who are believed to be most self-abased and humble, are generally in reality the most ambitious and envious.
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.
The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream; I sometimes doubted if indeed it were all true, for it never presented itself to my mind with the force of reality.
