Jordan Peterson Quotes

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality.

Truth is always a delusion.

The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.

We're all living in some state of illusion, even if modestly.

Perception's not reality.

There's so many different types of illusions; our lives are an illusion in a sense.

Perception is not always reality.

The world is a lie...not you and me.

We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane.

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.

It is only that my illusion is more real to me than reality. And so do we often build our world on an error, and cry out that the universe is falling to pieces, if any one but lift a finger to replace the error by truth.

Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

If you keep saying two plus two equals five over and over again, then that is what people are going to think. Maybe it does equal five if we keep changing the definition of what's normal and what's right and what's wrong.

If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.

I realize that nothing's as it seems.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening.

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

Sometimes we fall in love with the idea of a person and have trouble seeing the real thing.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

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

You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it's not that way at all, it's something else.