Schopenhauer. :P Now there is a buzzkill. That desire for things to mean what one wants instead of what they mean in reality is exactly the attitude I was ridiculing. And I like my Star Trek references.

That desire for things to mean what one wants instead of what they mean in reality is exactly the attitude I was ridiculing.

That was obvious. OTOH, Schopenhauer probably meant more the appraisal (I hope that's the correct word) of one's perceptions, whereas your target (and mine when quoting him) was more the "perception" part.

Sure. On a related note, an artist I’m fond of—Patrick Woodroffe—once remarked he never worked from photos or models because he found it much more interesting to draw and paint what he remembered than what actually was.

> And I like my Star Trek references.

Karl Marx in Star Trek?

Damn, I missed that episode ...

Cheers Rolf
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