“A psychologist said, “They used to talk about seeing only ‘reflections’ of reality. Not reality itself. The main thing wrong with a reflection is not that it isn’t real, but that it’s reversed.””
Source: A Scanner Darkly (1977), Chapter 13 (p. 213)
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“If you still have to talk
about Ultimate Reality
See how it manifests itself
nakedly
in
Every thing!”
Source: Echoes from the Bottomless Well (1985), p. 89

Quote of Naum Gabo, 1950; as cited in: Eidos: a journal of painting, sculpture and design. Nr.1, p. 31
1936 - 1977


“Why are all reflections lovelier than what we call the reality?”
not so grand or so strong, it may be, but always lovelier?
Phantastes (1858)
“Where Desert Spirits Crowd the Night”, p. 253
The Ivory and the Horn (1996)