When Einstein said "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."?

Albert Einstein was a pisces. Pisces are extremely sensitive, and the most physic .

I am not going to claim to know exactly what Einstein meant by this, but... what "reality" is is a constant question in philosophy, I imagine (i don't know much about philosophy myself). All we really have to judge what "reality" is is perception, and perception is not reliable. Ultimately, you can't even know for certain that you or anything around you truly "exists," or more importantly, whether anything exists as you perceive it.

Because of this uncertainty, "reality" for us pretty much is perception, by default. But if we so choose, we can accept or reject the various aspects of the "reality" we perceive as we see fit. However, as Einstein observes here, there is certainly a persistent consistency in the things we perceive (at least for most of us)- enough to convince us that we exist, that there's a world around us, that certain things will operate in a manner that we come to expect them to- that there is, in fact, a "reality." it's not so surprising that a scientist would say something like this, since science is really about observing and defining those consistencies that convince us there is an objective "reality"...

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.