Nature of reality

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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Philip K. Dick

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Nature of reality

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Philip K. Dick

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Speech

Statement Type

Definition

Language

English

Time

1978 1970s 20th century

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Dick, Phillip. "How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later." 1978, Disneyland, Anaheim, CA, USA. Speech.

"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."

Lewis Carroll

Through the Looking-Glass

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Nature of reality Logic

Author

Lewis Carroll

Source

Through the Looking-Glass

Medium

Novel

Genre

Children's literature

Language

English

Time

1871 1870s 19th century

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Original Citation

Carroll, Lewis. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. London: Macmillan, 1871, ch. 4.

Current Citation

Carroll, Lewis. "Through the Looking-Glass." Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass. Macmillan Collector's Library, 2016, ch. 4.

There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream—a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought—a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!

Mark Twain

The Mysterious Stranger

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Nature of reality The human condition

Author

Mark Twain

Source

The Mysterious Stranger

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1910 1910s 20th century

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Original Citation

Twain, Mark. The Mysterious Stranger. Harper & Brothers, 1916, ch. 11

Current Citation

Twain, Mark. "The Mysterious Stranger." Mark Twain: The Gilded Age and Later Novels, edited by Hamlin Hill. Library of America, 2002, ch. 11.

We accept the reality of the world with which we're presented. It's as simple as that.

The Truman Show

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Appearance vs. reality Nature of reality

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Christof

Actor

Ed Harris

Source

The Truman Show

Medium

Film

Genre

Psychological drama (film) Comedy drama (film) Psychological drama Comedy drama

Language

English

Time

1998 1990s 20th century

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The Truman Show. Directed by Peter Weir, Scott Rudin Productions, 1998.

What is "real"? How do you define "real"? If you’re talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, you can taste and see, then "real" is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.

Morpheus

The Matrix

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Nature of reality Perception vs. reality

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Morpheus

Actor

Laurence Fishburne

Source

The Matrix

Medium

Film

Genre

Science fiction (film) Action (film) Science fiction Action

Language

English

Time

1999 1990s 20th century

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The Matrix. Directed by The Wachowskis. Warner Bros./Village Roadshow Pictures/Groucho II Film Partnership/Silver Pictures, 1999.

Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it all lacks totality, completeness, unity.

Hermann Hesse

Siddhartha

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Limits of language Nature of reality

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Siddhartha

Author

Hermann Hesse

Source

Siddhartha

Medium

Novel

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

German

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Hesse, Hermann. Siddhartha: Eine Indische Dichtung [Siddhartha: An Indian Poetry]. S. Fischer Verlag, 1922.

Current Citation

Hesse, Hermann. Siddhartha, translated by Joachim Neugroschel. Penguin Classics, 2002.

What do we perceive besides our own ideas or sensations?

George Berkeley

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Perception Nature of reality

Author

George Berkeley

Source

Of the Principles of Human Knowledge

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Treatise

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Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1710 1710s 18th century

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Berkeley, George. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. Dublin: Jeremy Pepat, 1710, sect. 4.

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Berkeley, George. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, edited by Kenneth P. Winkler. Hackett Publishing Company, 1982, sect. 4.