Alan Watts Quotes

I'm trying to get more into other things, where reality is nothing but each individual's way of thinking.

There are many levels of truth.

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

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.

I never believe I'm presenting objective reality; I also don't want to delude people into thinking that my subject is talking directly to them.

The world you see is less of an indication about the world and more of an indication about your seeing.

The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?

Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing.

Perception is reality.

What you see is what you see.

I don't believe there's any such thing as objective reality. It's only reality as we experience it.

Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.

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

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

The truth is whatever people will believe is the truth.

Truth is an illusory notion.

People like things that make sense to them; your perspective is your reality.

In my long experience, one thing I know is that truth is elusive.

It depends on which reality you take and which reality I take.” (p. 318).

The world is how we see the world. Some people see the world good, the other people see the world bad. Every person has an idea of the world with a subjective [viewpoint].

The reality is in this head. Mine. I'm the projector at the planetarium, all the closed little universe visible in the circle of that stage is coming out of my mouth, eyes, and sometimes other orifices also.

Nonsense is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have superimposed on reality...Nonsense is nonsense only when we have not yet found that point of view from which it makes sense.

Watt's concern, deep as it appeared, was not after all what the figure was, in reality, but with what the figure appeared to be, in reality.

People make their own reality. That was what Praxis had taught him years ago. A hundred people can witness the exact same event, and give two hundred and three different accountings of it.