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

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. – Jules de Gaultier

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