You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
Franz Kafka
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
T. S. Eliot
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein
What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.
Louise Nevelson
Any intellectually conceived object is always in the past and therefore unreal. Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality.
Robert Pirsig