Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Art must take reality by surprise.

Art must take reality by surprise.

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures read more

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

It's weird. I mean, he's a dream, a fantasy, and, if he becomes real, it's like he's not mine anymore.

It's weird. I mean, he's a dream, a fantasy, and, if he becomes real, it's like he's not mine anymore.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

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.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. read more

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

A theory must be tempered with reality.

A theory must be tempered with reality.