"Our everyday, traditional ideas of reality are delusions which we spend substantial parts of our daily lives shoring up, even at the considerable risk of trying to force facts to fit our definition of reality instead of vice versa. And the most dangerous delusion of all is that there is only one reality."

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Source : "How real is real?: Confusion, disinformation, communication".

Paul Watzlawick

#Reality Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Risk Quotes

“It was such a relief to program in user mode for a change. Not having to care about the small stuff is wonderful.”
“One day every major city in America will have a telephone.”
“I really owe everything to my parents and their devotion and drive to see to it that their children had the education which led to the opportunities that they never were able to have.”
“In terms of love, you're not in control and I hate that feeling. I seem to write a lot of sad songs because I'm a very tragic person. But there's always an element of humour at the end.”
“Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.”
“The more you focus on control, the more likely you're working on a project that's striving to deliver something of relatively minor value.”
“When I live lucidly I see that I am both mortal and immortal. The person I appear to be in time had a beginning and will come to an end. But the deep self isn't in time, just like a dreamer isn't in a dream.”
“To make a war, sometimes it is necessary that everyone guess wrong.”

Source : T. R. Fehrenbach (2014). “This Kind of War: The Classic Military History of the Korean War”, p.39, Open Road Media

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