George Santayana Quotes

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.

When I see a colour or hear a sound, I am aware of something, and not of nothing.

All experience is subjective.

Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.

One advantage of arguing that causality is aesthetic is that it allows us to consider what we call consciousness alongside what we call things.

The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

Your thoughts do not create reality, but they do create your experience.

What you believe you experience.

But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly.

An illusion which is a real experience is worth having.

I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.

The texture of experience is prior to everything else.

Life can show up no other way than that way in which you perceive it.

As for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream.

Our life is a creation of our mind.

It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world colour and sound; and that supremely real and rational certainty which I call "experience" is, in its most simple form, an exceedingly complicated structure of mental images. Thus there is, in a certain sense, nothing that is directly experienced except the mind itself. Everything is mediated through the mind.

In reality, our mind is the creator of all the things we experience.

If your eyes weren't open, you wouldn't know the difference between dreaming and waking.

Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality.

Aren't memories just dreams we have when we're awake?

[D]oes the real world have any more substance than visions and hallucinations when we're having them? At any given moment, what's happening in our minds is all and everything that happens.

What is the subject of our thought? Experience! Nothing else!

A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.