"Reality, it cannot be repeated too often, varies with every one of us."

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“The individual is nothing, society is everything" .”

“The reader collaborates with the author in every book", or "The reader is co-author in every book”

“Young men in meetings put in common nothing but their mediocrity.”

“What distinguishes an argument from a play upon words, is that the latter cannot be translated.”

“A strange rage this modern mania to give a common manner to all minds and to destroy individuality.”

“There is no reality for me but pure thought. Minds alone are interesting.”

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"I’ve always had this funny feeling about reality. It just seems very feeble to me sometimes. It doesn’t seem to have the substantiality that it’s suppose to have."

— Philip K. Dick

Literature1928–1982

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"It's pleasing to realize that quite a few people enjoy this sort of playfulness and that they are not afraid to look at the relative nature of rock-hard reality."

— M. C. Escher

Mathematics1898–1972

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"“The only law to which we can give our obedience is the one of which we are convinced. And this way to act cannot be alleged to be egocentric or disorderly. First of all it is easy to realize that eve…"

— Aldo Capitini

Philosophy1899–1968

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"This is one country. It has become one country because all of us and all the people who came here had an equal chance to develop their talents. We cannot say to 10 percent of the population that you c…"

— John F. Kennedy

Politics

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