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H. P. Lovecraft Quotes about Reality

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That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality.

That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality.

H. P. Lovecraft
Reality, Shadow, Substance
H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “H. P. Lovecraft Complete Collection”, p.1394, H. P. Lovecraft

The ignorant and the deluded are, I think, in a strange way to be envied. That which is not known of does not trouble us, while an imagined but insubstantial peril does not harm us. To know the truths behind reality is a far greater burden.

H. P. Lovecraft
Reality, Thinking, Ignorant

Memories and possibilities are even more hideous than realities.

H. P. Lovecraft
Memories, Reality, Possibility

Non- Euclidean calculus and quantum physics are enough to stretch any brain; and when one mixes them with folklore, and tries to trace a strange background of multi-dimensional reality behind the ghoulish hints of Gothic tales and the wild whispers of the chimney-corner, one can hardly expect to be wholly free from mental tension. (Dreams In The Witch-House)

H. P. Lovecraft
Dream, Reality, House
H. P. Lovecraft (2017). “Dreams in the Witch House”, p.3, BookRix

Religion itself is an absurdity and an anomaly, and paganism is acceptable only because it represents that purely orgiastic phase of religion farthest from reality.

H. P. Lovecraft
Reality, Anomalies, Phases
H. P. Lovecraft (2010). “Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft”, p.139, Lulu.com

An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagances of solitary and uncorrected speculation. No man can learn to reason and appraise from a mere perusal of the writing of others. If he live not in the world, where he can observe the public at first hand and be directed toward solid reality by the force of conversation and spoken debate, then he must sharpen his discrimination and regulate his perceptive balance by an equivalent exchange of ideas in epistolary form.

H. P. Lovecraft
Mean, Writing, Reality

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