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“Whoever tries to create something by force is always exposed to the danger that the goal will break in front of his eyes, through his own behaviours, before he reaches it.”

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“When writers and psychologists believe they've illuminated reality, they are referring to something else: they transform the dark reality into a bright reality and then it's no longer reality with its real color, quality, and condition--instead they set forth a reality of their own heads that has nothing to do with the events spontaneously occurring in the spirit.”

Writing Reality Darkness Writers Illumination Brightness Psychologists

Book:Lands of Memory

Source: Lands of Memory

“the past has no existence except as it is recorded in the present. (...) we would seem forced to say that no phenomenon is a phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon. The universe does not 'exist, out there' independent of all acts of observation. Instead, it is in some strange sense a participatory universe”

Reality Past Universe Existence Observation Phenomenon

Author:John Archibald Wheeler

“She realized that you could be as honest as possible in life, but people only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality. As Thoreau wrote, ‘It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see”

Reality Truth Perception

Book:The Midnight Library

Source: The Midnight Library

“The persona is a complicated system of relations between individual consciousness and society, fittingly enough a kind of mask, designed on the one hand to make a definite impression upon others, and, on the other, to conceal the true nature of the individual.”

Reality Consciousness Society Individuality Impression Mask Persona

Book:Two Essays on Analytical Psychology

Source: Two Essays on Analytical Psychology

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