Owen Barfield Quote

And common sense today assumes that it is the outer world that is real and permanent, while the inner experience we call consciousness, or subjectivity, or our own or our self, is a fleeting unreality to which it somehow gives birth from time to time.

History, Guilt, and Habit - Chapter 2 (p. 47), Wesleyan University Press. Middletown, Connecticut, USA. 1979