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Reality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a fantasy whereby, despite our best efforts, prejudice, irrationality, ignorance, fear, and other things always infect any encounter we have with it.

Reality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠captured in the categorical nets of language only at the expense of fatal distortion.

Reality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a wrongheaded idea which cannot be destroyed by pointing to its misty cloud of delusion. We can destroy only as creators... it is enough to create new names and estimations and probabilities in order to create in the long run new things..

Reality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a primitive notion, and realism is a primitive passion, a 'love' that is contained in every feeling and sensation, a passion which some fantasy, some prejudice, some unreason, some ignorance, some fear, and ever so much else has contributed to it and worked on it.

Reality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠non-existent, for not even a mountain or a cloud can be considered at all if one were to subtract the phantasm and every human contribution from it.

Reality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠non-existent and while the realist's faith is that he is altogether incapable of intoxication, so too must we recognize that the good will to transcend intoxication is perhaps no more respectable.

Reality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠less important than perception. What things are called is incomparably more important than what they are (i.e. their reputation, their name, and appearance, their usual measure and weight, what it counts for).

Reality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠created by taking a thing 'as' something so often that it gradually grows to be part of the thing and turns into its very body.

Reality (n.) has ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠always had the best of wooers: the most thoroughly deceived, who in defiance embrace even the ugliest reality.

Reality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠measured by the degree to which we feel life and power.

Reality (n.) of ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠an object is felt through resistance: the feeling of strength and struggle convinces us that something is being resisted.

Reality (n.) in ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a world of becoming is only a simplification for practical ends, a deception through the coarseness of our organs, or a variation in the tempo of becoming.

Reality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠drawn from 'mattering-to-us': 'it exists' means 'I feel existent through contact with it'.

Reality (n.) in ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠its best-guaranteed form may be the very creating, logicising, trimming and falsifying — whatever 'posits things' may be the sole reality.