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"If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us."
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"An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world."
"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?"
"Our imagination and hope become a reality if we have the courage to believe and take action to realize them."
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"The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it."
"The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life."
"Without renouncing the support of physics, it is possible for the physiology of the senses, not only to pursue its own course of development, but also to afford to physical science itself powerful assistance."
"Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself."
"Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies."
"The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses."
"Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes."
"The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind."
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