There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values. ~David G. Myers
Objectivity has about as much substance as the emperor’s new clothes. ~Connie Miller
How do we know that the sky is not green and we are all color-blind? ~Author Unknown
There are no facts, only interpretations. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
What is reality anyway! It’s nothing but a collective hunch. ~Jane Wagner
What was once called the objective world is a sort of Rorschach ink blot, into which each culture, each system of science and religion, each type of personality, reads a meaning only remotely derived from the shape and color of the blot itself. ~Lewis Mumford
Humankind cannot bear very much reality. ~T.S. Eliot
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion. ~Democritus
What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable. ~Louise Nevelson
All the mind’s activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality. ~Marcel Proust
Reality is a palette that humans paint on to let themselves sleep better at night. ~Author Unknown
After you’ve heard two eyewitness accounts of an auto accident, you begin to worry about history. ~Author Unknown
Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. ~Jane Wagner
Marion,
“Unless we become as a little child we would not see nor enter the kingdom of God… and a little child shall lead them.”~Bible
Carpe Diem….Usually translated from the Latin as ‘seize the day’, or sometimes as ‘enjoy the day, pluck the day when it is ripe’.
Sid
Hard for culturally conditioned humans to swim against the prevailing current of human knowledge and opinions as to what is “Real”; after all, they might be ostracized by those holding the common opinion.
In this story of the Emperor’s New Clothes, I’m reminded of a verse in the bible (and probably in other traditions as well) that says we can not know the “truth” except as we become as little children…who in the story declared that the emperor was naked?
We are the Emperor, we are the people; we are also the child. Dare to be different…Carpe Diem! …marion