Siri Hustvedt Quotes

You will not ever perceive the truth that is reality. There are many realities.

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

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

My view is my view. Your view is your view.

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

Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.

...[E]very person perceives the world differently. So essentially, there are six billion human versions of reality on this planet, each perceiving its own truth.

There can be many opinions on a thing, but there is only one truth." Vashet smiled lazily. "And if the pursuit of the truth was my goal, that would concern me." She gave a long yawn, stretching like a happy cat. "Instead I will focus on the joy in my heart, [...}

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

The only reality I can possibly know is the world as I perceive it at this moment. The only reality you can possibly know is the world as you see it at this moment. And the only certainty is that those perceived realities are different. There are as many “real worlds” as there are people!

Perception is reality.

All of us create our own versions of an event, of our lives, even, not because we're liars, necessarily, but because we can only see and understand the truth from our own viewpoint, and a shifting viewpoint at that.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.

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

People say I have a distorted lens. I think I see things as they really are.

Truth is often a multiplicity of perspectives, and sometimes the more viewpoints and versions of events there are, the closer the reader gets to an overarching truth.

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.

Don't confuse facts with reality.

A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls... saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality?

Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.

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.

No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions.

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

The truth is what you say it is, and that’s not a good place to be.