Haruki Murakami Quotes

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.

What we're showing may not be your reality, but it's ours.

Your version of the truth is all that matters.

Reality is a question of perspective.

A lot of what we're doing here deals with perception rather than truth. Many would argue that reality depends more on the former than the latter.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality

There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.

...[E]very person perceives the world differently. So essentially, there are six billion human versions of reality on this planet, each perceiving its own truth.

I'm trying to get more into other things, where reality is nothing but each individual's way of thinking.

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

There are many realities. There are many versions of what may appear obvious. Whatever appears as the unshakeable truth, its exact opposite may also be true in another context. After all, one's reality is but perception, viewed through various prisms of context.

Perception is reality.

Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We're all limited by our perspective.

There are many levels of truth.

All of us create our own versions of an event, of our lives, even, not because we're liars, necessarily, but because we can only see and understand the truth from our own viewpoint, and a shifting viewpoint at that.

Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.

You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time.

Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations.

There may not be one Truth - there may be several truths - but saying that is not to say that reality doesn't exist.

One person's crazyness is another person's reality.

You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.

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

The truth is whatever people will believe is the truth.

Truth is, in fact, an elusive concept. It depends almost entirely on where you are standing at the time. It is a human instinct to confuse belief with truth.