I didn’t have a quote that readily came to mind on the subject of reality. I have remedied that and now have a collection.
So here are two I picked from my new favorites, not because they are my absolute favorite.
I chose according to what I felt fit me for the majority of my life. The first informs the second.
Dogmas- religious, political, scientific- arise out of the erroneous belief that thought can encapsulate reality or truth. Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security, a false sense of “I know.”
Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks
The unreal is much more powerful then the real. Because nothing is as perfect you can imagine it. Because it’s only intangibles, ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die.
Chuck Palaniuk, Choke
Thanks for the question Jeruba and I enjoyed several of the responses.