Freud wrote that love involves the undervaluation of reality and the overvaluation of the desired object. While the correct valuation of a person is an odd, if not impossible idea, we might say Freud meant something like this: for various reasons, ma...
[T]he heart is a very unreliable coinpass, and even will and knowledge, as all ideological factors in general, are not to be trusted as guides if they are without any material basis…. [I]t is not love nor help which is the guiding rule of our time,...
Never surrender your hopes and dreams to the fateful limitations others have placed on their own lives. The vision of your true destiny does not reside within the blinkered outlook of the naysayers and the doom prophets. Judge not by their words, but...
I'm stuck in the middle Of the dream and the reality Not able to tell the difference Not able to wake up Did I dream you into my life Or were you always real And were you always present Within the endlessness of time Something tells me, we came toget...
See the exquisite contrast of the types of mind! The pragmatist clings to facts and concreteness, observes truth at its work in particular cases, and generalises. Truth, for him, becomes a class-name for all sorts of definite working-values in experi...
He reassures her, but he feels her soft laughter travel through their joined hands — how did that happen? — as they make their way downstairs. And he understands. He understands why people hold hands: he’d always thought it was about possessive...
Talk Show Caller: Hi, Christof. I was just wondering how many cameras you got there in that town. Christof: Somewhere in the vicinity of 5000. Talk Show Caller: That's a lot of cameras. Christof: Remember, we started with just one. [as he speaks, cli...
...reality is always plural and mutable.
In a market, preceptions could be as important as reality. p.403
It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.
…reality catches up with you eventually.
If you're worried I'll bite, I promise to tell you first.
Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore
When we dream alone it is only a dream, but when many dream together it is the beginning of a new reality.
Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.
Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.
Let her be with her memories. Better that than be aware of this reality.
Instinct is a makeshift, an admission of helplessness before the problem of reality.
All worlds of fiction are alternative realities.
