An inability to meet the real demands of love is one of the essential characteristics of neurosis; the patients are dominated by the opposition of reality and fantasy. They will flee from what they long for most intensely in their fantasies if they encounter it in real life, and they are most likely to abandon themselves to fantasies when they no longer need to fear their realization.
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For there is a way back from imagination to reality and that is — art.
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Dream disfigurement, then, turns out in reality to be an act of the censor.
censor / disfigurement / dream / reality
Familialism consists of magically denying social reality, and avoiding all connections with the actual flux.
Familialism / flux / reality
The discovery of geometry had intoxicated them, and its a priori deductive method appeared capable of universal application. They would prove, for instance, that all reality is one, that there is no such thing as change, that the world of sense is a world of mere illusion; and the strangeness of their results gave them no qualms because they believed in the correctness of their reasoning.
The reality was the decaying, dingy cities, where underfed people shuffled to and fro in leaky shoes, in patched – up nineteenth – century houses that smelt always of cabbage and bad lavatories.
In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable: and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.
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Reality exists in the human mind.
No artist tolerates reality.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.