B.K.S. Iyengar (1918–2014) Indian yoga teacher and scholar
Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 8
“We're making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality.”
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Michel Henry (1922–2002) French writer
Original: (fr) La souffrance forme le tissu de l'existence, elle est le lieu où la vie devient vivante, la réalité et l'effectivité phénoménologique de ce devenir.
Source: Michel Henry, L'Essence de la manifestation, 1963, t. 2, § 70, p. 828
Source: Books on Phenomenology of Life, The Essence of Manifestation (1963)
“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
“To make abstractions hold in reality is to destroy reality.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel book Lectures on the Philosophy of History
Abstraktionen in der Wirklichkeit geltend machen, heißt Wirklichkeit zerstören.
Vorlesungen über der Geschichte der Philosophie (herausgegeben von D. Karl Ludwig Michelet) Dritter Band. Berlin, 1836. Verlag von Dunder und humblot. (p. 553)
Lectures on the Philosophy of History (1832), Volume 1
Ida Friederike Görres (1901–1971) Austrian writer and noble
Broken Lights p. 63 Diaries 1951-1952.
“The unbeliever walks for a quadrillion miles, yet one moments of reality makes up for it.”
Colin Wilson book The Outsider
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John le Carré (1931) British novelist and spy
As quoted in "Master of the Secret World: John le Carré on Deception, Storytelling and American Hubris" by Andrew Ross, in Salon (21 October 1996); also in Conversations with John le Carré (2004) edited by Matthew Joseph Bruccoli and Judith Baughman, p. 141
Context: I use the furniture of espionage to amuse the reader, to make the reader listen to me, because most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage. I think what gives my works whatever universality they have is that they use the metaphysical secret world to describe some realities of the overt world.