Appearance and Reality (1893; second edition 1897)[1] is a book by the English philosopher Francis Herbert Bradley, in which the author, influenced by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, argues that things like qualities and relations, space and time, matter and motion, selves and bodies, and activity and change, are all contradictory and unreal appearances.

[4] The book was an early influence on Bertrand Russell, encouraging him to question contemporary dogmas and beliefs.

[3] Russell recalled that Appearance and Reality had a profound appeal not only to him but to most of his contemporaries, and that the philosopher George Stout had stated that Bradley "had done as much as is humanly possible in ontology."

While Russell later rejected Bradley's views, he continued to regard Appearance and Reality with "the greatest respect".

[2] Thomas Mautner comments that Bradley's "bold metaphysics" is presented with "pugnacious verve".