Wolfgang Hildesheimer Quotes

Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.

The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.

The real world is much smaller than the imaginary

My perspective will create my perception

I saw that everything famous and beautiful in the world, if we judge by the descriptions and drawings of writers and artists, always loses when we go to see it and examine it closely.

And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.

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.

It's odd, because I used to see pictures, on telly or wherever, of what I now know to be Shaftesbury Avenue and I used to wonder what that amazing street with all the lights was. Well, now I know. I think when you get a wee taste of something, it maybe isn't what you thought it was.

In every story of solipsism, there is always a conspiracy. Why? Because there is always a background involved in every perception.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion.

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

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

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Everything is but what we think it.

He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality

Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?

After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

The facts, even the real ones, must be imagined before they can be stated.

The truth is a fog, in which one man sees the heavenly host and the other one sees a flying elephant.

I think reality is over-rated

Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.

People are disappointed that you aren't exactly who they thought you were, as opposed to somebody who's just walking around trying to get some laundry done.

How can you see something that isn't there?" yawned the Humbug, who wasn't fully awake yet. "Sometimes, it's much simpler than seeing things that are,"he said. "For instance, if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones." "Then where is Reality?" barked Tock. "Right here,"cried Alec, waving his arms.