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| A very slight change in our habits is sufficient to destroy our sense of our daily reality, and the reality of the world about us; the moment we pass out of our habits we lose all sense of permanency and routine | | George Moore | |
| As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. | | Albert Einstein | |
| False happiness is like false money; it passes for a long time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss. | | Alexander Pope | |
| Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present | | Jean Paul Richter | |
| For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are | | Niccolo Machiavelli | |
| God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone. | | Oscar Wilde | |
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| I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent of the measurements. That is an electron has spin, location and so forth even when it is not being measured. I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it. | | Albert Einstein | |
| If both the physiological and the safety needs are fairly well gratified, then there will emerge love and affection and belongingness needs, and the whole cycle already described will repeat itself with this new centre. Now the person will feel keenl | | Abraham Maslow | |
| Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. | | Søren Kierkegaard | |
| Love is all, love is new / Love is all, love is you | | John Lennon | |
| Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished | | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | |
| Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. | | Oscar Wilde | |
| Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality; for how we live is so far removed from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought to be done, will rather bring about | | Niccolo Machiavelli | |
| No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish | | David Hume | |
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| Now is all we have. Everything that has ever happened to you, and anything that is ever going to happen to you, is just a thought. | | Wayne Dyer | |
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| Reality confronts man with a great many "musts," but all of them are conditional; the formula of realistic necessity is: "You must, if " and the "if" stands for man's choice | | Ayn Rand | |
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