Guy Forget Quotes

Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes.

What I do find surprising is that other people do not think in the same way. I find it hard to imagine a world where numbers and words are not how I experience them!

Everyone gets meaning in different ways.

To philosophize man must put his whole soul into play, in much the same manner that to run he must use his heart and lungs.

If a Million People See My Movie, I Hope They See a Million Different Movies.

I think anything you listen to is going to be different.

If you hold a beautiful flower in your hand, you can write a whole book about it. However, you are still just you perceiving and experiencing it from your own point of view.

To begin to understand the gorgeous fever that is consciousness, we must try to understand the senses and what they can tell us about the ravishing world we have the privilege to inhabit.

Home! With what different sensations different people pronounce and hear that word pronounced!

Space is all one space and thought is all one thought, but my mind divides its spaces into spaces into spaces and thoughts into thoughts into thoughts. Like a large condominium. Occasionally I think about the one Space and the one Thought, but usually I don't. Usually I think about my condominium.

Like all real treasures of the mind, perception can be split into infinitely small fractions without losing its quality. The weeds in a city lot convey the same lesson as the redwoods; the farmer may see in his cow-pasture what may not be vouchsafed to the scientist adventuring in the South Seas.

Consciousness is a sea ringed with visions.

People make their own reality. That was what Praxis had taught him years ago. A hundred people can witness the exact same event, and give two hundred and three different accountings of it.

The leading edge of reality is mind, and mind is the primary substratum of being.

Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.

What we call a mind is nothing but a heap or collection of different perceptions, united together by certain relations and supposed, though falsely, to be endowed with a perfect simplicity and identity.

Whatever we know without inference is mental.

There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.

You gotta be careful with message movies. People say "What do you want people to take away from it?" I always say its totally individual.

That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.

When I was studying at Chicago and at Stanford University, where many many cases of two people observing the same event have a different take on what happened.

Value is a perception not a calculation. Value is something people feel, not something we tell them they get

It seems to me that the real problem is the mind itself and not the problem which the mind has created and tries to solve.

Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

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