„Only the right name gives beings and things their reality. A wrong name makes everything unreal. That’s what lies do.“

— Michael Ende

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„Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.“
— Mason Cooley
„Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being.“
— Rainer Maria Rilke
„Civilization consists in giving something an unfitting name, then dream about the result. And indeed the false name and the real dream create a new reality. The object really becomes another, because we turned it into another one. We manufacture realities.“
— Fernando Pessoa
„Everything is both a trap and a display; the secret reality of the object is what the Other makes of it.“
— Jean Paul Sartre