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Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because r

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit. – G. K. Chesterton

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To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People dont deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them! – Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet. – Edward Abbey

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What was once called the objective world is a sort of Rorschach ink blot, into which each culture, each system of science and religion, each type of personality, reads a meaning only remotely derived from the shape and color of the blot itself. – Lewis Mumford, “Orientation to Life,” The Conduct of Life, 1951

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The very definition of the real has become: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. . . The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced: that is the hyperreal – Jean Baudrillard

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Wise men are instructed in reason;
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