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When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we read more
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems read more
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems -- but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible.
Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious...
Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious...
Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.
Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.
People see the world not as it is, but as they are.
People see the world not as it is, but as they are.
It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between "happens" and "is,"on read more
It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between "happens" and "is,"on the one hand, and "ought," on the other hand.
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that read more
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
