„Reality is a creation of our excesses.“

— Emil M. Cioran

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„Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's individual value-judgments.“
— Ayn Rand
„Instead of playing his part as truly and honestly as he could, the German intellectual has constantly rebelled against the word and against reason and courted wonderful creations of sound, and wonderful beauties of feeling and mood that were never pressed home to reality, has left the greater part of its practical gifts to decay. None of us intellectuals is at home in reality. We are strange to it and hostile. That is why the part played by intellect even in our own German reality, in our history and politics and public opinion, has be so lamentable a one.“
— Hermann Hesse
„One's values are profoundly changed when he is finally convinced that creation is only a vast motion picture and that not in, but beyond, lies his own ultimate reality.“
— George Harrison
„Really, there is no wrong. Not in our minds. Our own reality.“
— Chuck Palahniuk
„Conditioning obstructs our view of reality.“
— Bruce Lee
„Truth is a free creation of the human spirit, that never would exist at all if we did not generate it ourselves. The task of understanding is not to replicate in conceptual form something that already exists, but rather to create a wholly new realm, that together with the world given to our senses constitutes the fullness of reality.“
— Rudolf Steiner