Famous Quotes about reality

Thomas Metzinger quote #98 from The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self

Yes there is an outside world and yes there is an objective reality but in moving through this world we constantly apply unconscious filter mechanisms and in doing so we unknowingly construct our own individual world which is our reality tunnel.
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T.B. Markinson quote #58 from A Woman Lost

My eyes lingered on her naked body for several minutes. Was our relationship what she wanted Was it satisfying for her Was it what she dreamed of when she started falling in love with me Did reality ever fulfill our dreams Or do dreams just continually set us up for failure and disappointment
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Ferdinand Cohn famous quote #13

The more formidable the contradiction between inexhaustible life-joy and inevitable fate the greater the longing which reveals itself in the kingdom of poetry and in the self-created world of dreams hopes to banish the dark power of reality. The gods enjoy eternal youth and the search for the means of securing it was one of the occupations of the heroes of mythology and the sages as it was of real adventurers in the middle ages and more recent times. . . . But the fountain of youth has not been found and can not be found if it is sought in any particular spot on the earth. Yet it is no fable no dream-picture it requires no adept to find it it streams forth inexhaustible in all living nature.
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