“The common error of ordinary religious practice is to mistake the symbol for the reality, to look at the finger pointing the way and then to suck it for comfort rather than follow it.”— Alan W. Watts, amazon.com
“Reality is structured by belief, by a faith in fantasy that we know to be a fantasy yet we believe nonetheless.”— Simon Critchley, amazon.com
“Ideas, images, or wishes rose up in me and pulled me away from the outside world, to the point where my relationship with these pictures inside me, these dreams and shadows, were truer and more vital than those I had with my true surroundings.”— Hermann Hesse, amazon.com
“It is not reality's problem, however, that it has immeasurable processes. Rather, it is the problem of scientism, which limits nature to the measurable.”— Ede Frecska,
“[Amazing athletes] are at peace with failure or success; as [Peter] Schjeldahl wrote, they take 'an impersonal joy' in what they do. They see themselves from the outside, as impersonal constructs, which may lead to the oft-ridiculed referencing themselves in the third person.”— Sam Sheridan, amazon.com
“...we each have this ridiculously finite number of things inscribed in our minds, and what we do, moment by moment, is continuously postulate an extrinsic 'world' for ourselves by reshuffling and recapitulating these ridiculously finite number of things. But it's a completely closed system—there's n…”— Mark Leyner, REAL WIFE, amazon.com
“We have created a myth, this myth is a belief, a noble enthusiasm; it does not need to be reality, it is a striving and a hope, belief and courage. Our myth is the nation, the great nation which we want to make into a concrete reality for ourselves.”— Benito Mussolini, amazon.com
“Everyone knows that the light of the stars needs a very long time to reach us; sometimes we perceive it after the star itself has disappeared. This gap between the star as a virtual source and its perception by us, this non-simultaneity, is an inescapable part of the illusion of the world, the absen…”— Jean Baudrillard, amazon.com