Erich Fromm Quotes

The relationship between the imagined and the real is more complicated than people imagine.

You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it.

It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.

Appearances are not reality; but they often can be a convincing alternative to it. You can control appearances most of the time, but facts are what they are. When the facts are too sharp, you can craft a cheerful version of the situation and cover the facts the way that you can covered a battered old four-slice toaster with a knitted cozy featuring images of kittens.

As soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency.

Perception is everything and that becomes the reality. It's a big problem for Hillary Clinton.

Reality has come to seem more and more like what we are shown by cameras.

Those who are awake all live in the same world. Those who are asleep live in their own worlds.

Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.

It is not a camera, or a reporter that makes something real and genuine; more often a camera or a reporter does the opposite.

In this world we live in now, with a 24/7 news cycle, perception can sometimes be more powerful than reality.

Reality is fabricated out of desire.

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

The presence of others who see what we see and hear what we hear assures us of the reality of the world and ourselves.

Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.

The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.

You don't want the truth. Truth is boring.

We're making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality.

If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not.

The media has the power to create an entrenched perception of reality that's incorrect.

I'm not here now. This isn't happening. You're just visiting a dream of mine.

Real’ is a dirty word in this place.

What you think is an illusion created by your glands, your emotions and, in the last analysis, by the content of your stomach. That gray matter you're so proud of is like a mirror in an amusement park which transmits to you nothing but distorted signals from reality forever beyond your grasp.

We insist that society should conform to our own subjective illusion of reality.

Fantasy and reality often overlap.