Alejandro Jodorowsky Quotes

What we experience is our own concept of things. That is why no two people see quite the same world, and why, in many cases, different people see such different worlds. To put it another way, we make our own world by the way in which we think; for we really do live in a world of our own thoughts.

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

No two people have the same reality

All experience is subjective.

Perception is reality. People take what they want to from things.

The prism through which you experience life is so unique. There is no objective experience.

To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is – in other words, not a thing, but a think.

Memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality, its heterogeneous but usually coherent version of events; and no sane human being ever trusts someone else's version more than his own.

Everyone sees drama from his own perspective.

You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time.

No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.

More important than innate disposition, objective experience, and environment is the subjective evaluation of these. Furthermore, this evaluation stands in a certain, often strange, relation to reality.

Photographs are interpretations of reality; as such, it is entirely subjective. Most photos are taken with an agenda, to sell something or to make a subject look better than it really is. Think of family snapshots - everyone is smiling and happy.

What each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but on pictures made by himself or given to him...

There are as many "real worlds" as there are people!

Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions. What we perceive depends upon what we look for. What we look for depends upon what we think. What we think depends upon what we perceive. What we perceive determines what we believe. What we believe determines what we take to be true. What we take to be true is our reality.

I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.

Life is rarely about what happened; it's mostly about what we think happened.

I think we all see the world from our own little unique bubble.

My perspective will create my perception

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

After all, across the population there are slight differences in brain function, and sometimes these translate directly into different ways of experiencing the world. And each individual believes his way is reality.

I am prepared to accept from others their own version of reality. I think it is a basic freedom really, to create one's own reality from whatever truths are available.

It is the bane and the balm of individual perception that 'objective' reality is seen through the filter of each person's temperament.

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.