Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion. – Democritus

What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly? – Author Unknown

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. – Voltaire

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