reality
1. The quality or state of being actual or true.
2. One, such as a person, an entity, or an event, that is actual: “the weight of history and political realities” (Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.).
3. The totality of all things possessing actuality, existence, or essence.
4. That which exists objectively and in fact: Your observations do not seem to be about reality.
There are no facts, only interpretations. ~Friedrich Nietzsc
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion. ~Democritus
To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another. ~John Burroughs
How reluctantly the mind consents to reality! ~Norman Douglas
After you've heard two eyewitness accounts of an auto accident, you begin to worry about history. ~Author Unknown
and my favorite...
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. ~Jessamyn West
spending a lot of time contemplating reality lately. and what i've come to realize is that the mere fact that some try to impose their reality as fact and absolute totality is absolutely the most insane thing eve in the entire world amen. i'm mean, really? how do you have a discussion with another who believes in absolute totality of their reality? you don't. you end up trying to go along with their beliefs until you can't anymore. or you begin to hate them for it. or both.
i may be stubborn but i stick to my values and my beliefs and i can even try it your way for while. but if you can't try it mine, then i'm out the door. it's called "meeting in the middle". i give a little, you give a little and hey look at that, we've figured out a way to compromise!
my dad surprised me the other day. he told me that he knew my most recent long term relationship wouldn't work not because of all the reason i sighted but simply because i am a giver and he was very clearly a taker. i asked him what he saw specifically that made him come to that conclusion and he simply replied "reality".
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. ~Mahatma Gandhi