Aaron Neville Quotes

The truth is whatever people will believe is the truth.

Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.

However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - in other words, not a thing, but a think.

Some comedians really are funnier than others. Some people really are more beautiful than others. But these are true only because of the kinds of creatures we happen to be; the perceptual apparatus - apparati - that we happen to have.

Truth is created, not discover!

Reality is fabricated out of desire.

Time is a person-made concept.

At the heart of 'The Famished Road' is a philosophical conundrum - for me, an essential one: what is reality? Everybody's reality is subjective; it's conditioned by upbringing, ideas, temperament, religion, what's happened to you.

There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.

There may not be one Truth - there may be several truths - but saying that is not to say that reality doesn't exist.

It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most 'familiarity' is meditated and delusive.

You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.

You don't know reality until someone makes a fiction of it. Reality needs the completion of fiction.

Truth is, in fact, an elusive concept. It depends almost entirely on where you are standing at the time. It is a human instinct to confuse belief with truth.

Truth is an illusory notion.

History is like Santa Claus: a language construction. We have some registers about the existence of Santa and history - the presents under the tree, the archives - but none have really seen them.

How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy, or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined.

Myth-making is absolutely necessary to create the simplified images that people live off.

We control the world basically because we are the only animals that can cooperate flexibly in very large numbers. And if you examine any large-scale human cooperation, you will always find that it is based on some fiction like the nation, like money, like human rights.

One place exists as their interpretation of it. For the people living and thriving inside of it, it's another place.

There was no way to grasp the reality of the present which slid away each second, invisible as air; reality only existed after the fact, in one's vision of the past.

The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place.

There is no murder. We make murder, and it matters only to us.

The truth is an arbitrary, shifting, culturally relative, and historically molded phenomenon.

We're not talking about truth, we're talking about something that seems like truth - the truth we want to exist.