T. E. Hulme Quotes

Amazing what people make up based on what they choose to see.

I'm particularly interested in how you can't rely on your own perception.

My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any more. It's just my reality.

You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?

There is no truth. There is only perception.

I'm less interested in reality. I'm more interested in perception, the truth of the universe that we see.

Our capacity for belief is so plastic, we can convince ourselves of anything. Believing is seeing.

Even moderate confirmation bias can result in reality dysmorphia.

But Annabeth knew that people saw what they wanted to see. They didn’t need the Mist to warp their perceptions.

People's belief in their own local reality-tunnels keep us all far stupider than we ought to be.

Look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them.... Without knowing it, we are coloring everything, putting our spin on it all.

Beauty is a question of optics. All sight is illusion.

Anything processed by memory is fiction.

The blind see what they want to see.

We say seeing is believing, but actually, we are much better at believing than at seeing. In fact, we are seeing what we believe all the time and occasionally seeing what we can't believe

People see what they want to see when they need to.

No one seemed able to look at themselves, coolly, from the outside. Their reality was all that could be seen in the light cast ahead by their own wishful thinking.

We see what we want to see. We idealize each other with our own fantasies.

We are so bemused by our own petard, that we are unable to look at things objectively.

Every kind of ignorance in the world all results from not realizing that our perceptions are gambles. We believe what we see and then we believe our interpretation of it, we don’t even know we are making an interpretation most of the time. We think this is reality.

To ensure that our views are credible, our brain accepts what our eye sees. To ensure that our views are positive, our eye looks for what our brain wants. The conspiracy between these two servants allows us to live at the fulcrum of stark reality and comforting illusion.

Most people see what they want to, or at least what they expect to.

Judgment means that you view the world as you are, rather than as it is.

There is nothing that isn't true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.

Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be.