Ms. Dominico’s Year 12 VCE English Class

Quotations:

** ‘Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.’ Philip K. Dick
** ‘Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.’ Albert Einstein
** ‘Are you sure that the floor can’t also be a ceiling?’ M.C. Escher
** ‘There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes and values.’ David G Myers, Social Psychology
** ‘There are no facts, only interpretations.’ Freidrich Nietzsche

** ‘It is and it must in the long run be better for someone to see things as they are than to be ignorant of them.’ A.E.Houseman
** ‘How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one’s senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality!’ Norman Douglas
** ‘Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.’
** ‘Somehow, if you really attend to the real, it tells you everything.’ Robert C. Pollock
** ‘When you see yourself in proportion – as you’re bound to do when you get some sense – then you see how much greater what is real is than anything you can put down.’ Eudora Welty