Michael Crichton Quotes

The Here-and-Now demands attention, is more present to us. We dismiss the inner world of our ideas as less important, although most of our immediate physical reality originated only in the mind. The TV, sofa, clock and room, the whole civilisation that contains them once were nothing save ideas.

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.

Life is very, very simple and easy to understand, but we complicate it with the beliefs and ideas that we create.

We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas.

It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.

I'm not interested in observed reality.

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Reality is mind-made.

Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?

Perception and reality are two different things.

The satiated person and the hungry one do not see the same thing when they look upon a loaf of bread.

taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response. Nothing is more decisive. There is taste in people, visual taste, taste in emotion - and there is taste in acts, taste in morality. Intelligence, as well, is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Sight is subjective. We learned that in class.

Perception has always interested me. The idea thatbehind every face, there are a thousand faces. Beneath the placidveneer of middle America, there lies terror.

Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.

People assume that they perceive reality as it is, that our senses accurately record the outside world. Yet the science suggests that, in important ways, people experience reality not as it is, but as they expect it to be.

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

It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them.

Reality is irrelevant; Perception is everything.

We cannot study the brain, the instrument for fabricating the realities we inhabit, using the mental constructs of the past.

An idea or a fact is not worth more merely because it's more available to you.

Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw.

It is therefore correct to say that the senses do not err — not because they always judge rightly, but because they do not judge at all.

It is the disposition of the thought that altered the nature of the thing.