Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Date of birth: 1879-03-14
Date of death: 1955-04-18
Quotes number: 182
Nationality: German
Profession: Physicist
I'm cleaning toilets for $30 a day, because I needed that $30, and people are pointing at me, saying, Look at the big movie star. Look where he is now. I just said, I'm where God put me.
The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective.
I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful.
Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.
I like reality. It tastes like bread.
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.