Phyllis Bottome Quotes

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

Perception is one millionth of one percent reality (truth in fact).

The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.

Artists are people who are not at all interested in the facts - only in the truth.

Your positions on EVERYTHING are based on the story you tell yourself and not some universal fact from the universal fact database.

As the growing emphasis on feelings crowds out reason, facts will play a smaller role in public discourse.

What is my truth can not be your truth.

I write from what I take to be the realist's point of view, looking at life as it really is - or the way I see it to be.

An adjective, such as 'flimsy,' describes someone's access to a thing, such as 'argument.' But that's just that someone's access. It may be accurate. But it's theirs nevertheless.

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

Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.

The obscurity is much oftener in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject.

There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.

Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth.

Our inner weighing of evidence is not a careful mathematical calculation resulting in a probabilistic estimate of truth, but more like a whirlpool blending of the objective and the personal. The result is a set of beliefs - both conscious and unconscious - that guide us in interpreting all the events of our lives.

A crowd thinks in images, and the image itself calls up a series of other images, having no logical connection with the first...A crowd scarcely distinguishes between the subjective and the objective. It accepts as real the images invoked in its mind, though they most often have only a very distant relation with the observed facts....Crowds being only capable of thinking in images are only to be impressed by images.

The blind see what they want to see.

Facts mean little compared to attitudes. To contradict rumor or sentiment is as futile as arguing against a believer's faith in the Immaculate Conception. You have simply become a victim of faith, Comrade Assistant.

There is nothing that deceives us more than our own judgment when used to give an opinion on our own works. It is sound in judging the work of our enemies but not that of our friends, for hate and love are two of the most powerfully motivating factors found among living things.

Judgment means that you view the world as you are, rather than as it is.

The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.

The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings.

Amazing what people make up based on what they choose to see.

Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling.

Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway - we just disguise them as logic.