David Eagleman Quotes

More important than innate disposition, objective experience, and environment is the subjective evaluation of these. Furthermore, this evaluation stands in a certain, often strange, relation to reality.

Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.

...[E]very person perceives the world differently. So essentially, there are six billion human versions of reality on this planet, each perceiving its own truth.

Reality is myself, reality is only the perception of this instant and it can't be related to another person.

Individuals have to decide what is true and real for them.

People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. That’s how they define Reality. But what does it mean to be “correct” or “true”? Merely vague concepts… Their Reality may all be a mirage. Can we consider them to simply be living in their own world, shaped by their beliefs?

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

We're all subjective beings and trapped in our own realities and our own biographical stories and physical bodies and our histories - and that's the only way we can experience the world.

I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.

There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.

I am prepared to accept from others their own version of reality. I think it is a basic freedom really, to create one's own reality from whatever truths are available.

You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of reality is self-evident. When you delude yourself into thinking that you see something, you assume that everyone else sees the same thing as you. But I tell you, Winston, that reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Paty, which is collective and immortal.

Reality is a question of perspective.

Every mind has another vision of reality. There is not a common reality. Every person thinks he is like the others, but every person is different, living in his own psychology.

We both know that, my friend, but a man's perception soon becomes his reality.

As for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream.

And for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream. But things that many see may have no taste or moment in them at all, and things that are shown only to one may be spears and water-spouts of truth from the very depth of truth.

A lot of what we're doing here deals with perception rather than truth. Many would argue that reality depends more on the former than the latter.

Who’s to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a nation? How can one group of people look at the world and see one thing, and another see something completely different? One sees a town, another sees a desert. One sees beauty, another sees chaos.” The skin of this world,” he said quietly.

You see, if you make believe hard enough that something is true, then it is true for you.

We live in condensations of our imagination

There is no reality except the one contained within us.

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

It is no longer a matter of expressing reality, but of expressing what one feels about reality.

The only reality I can possibly know is the world as I perceive it at this moment. The only reality you can possibly know is the world as you see it at this moment. And the only certainty is that those perceived realities are different. There are as many “real worlds” as there are people!