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A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Soren Kierkegaard /

Only by means of decisions does man enter reality.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel /

The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.

Henri Bergson - Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness /

To define means to fix, and, when you get down to it, real life isn't fixed.

Alan Watts - The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety /

We are all bewitched by words. We confuse them with the real world, and try to live in the real world as if it were the world of words.

Alan Watts - The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety /

The 'paradox' is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality 'ought to be.'

Richard Phillips Feynman

All fear is imaginary, reality is its antidote.

André Comte-Sponville - Impromptus /

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

Charles Baudelaire