Salman Rushdie Quotes

We both know that, my friend, but a man's perception soon becomes his reality.

So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality.

At the heart of 'The Famished Road' is a philosophical conundrum - for me, an essential one: what is reality? Everybody's reality is subjective; it's conditioned by upbringing, ideas, temperament, religion, what's happened to you.

You know, sometimes there's a difference between what is actually the truth and what you perceive to be the truth through your social conditioning.

You've seen what you've seen; you've felt what you've felt. Ideology is for people who don't trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world.

We're all subjective beings and trapped in our own realities and our own biographical stories and physical bodies and our histories - and that's the only way we can experience the world.

But Annabeth knew that people saw what they wanted to see. They didn’t need the Mist to warp their perceptions.

People's belief in their own local reality-tunnels keep us all far stupider than we ought to be.

Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.

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

Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be.

After all, across the population there are slight differences in brain function, and sometimes these translate directly into different ways of experiencing the world. And each individual believes his way is reality.

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

Who’s to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a nation? How can one group of people look at the world and see one thing, and another see something completely different? One sees a town, another sees a desert. One sees beauty, another sees chaos.” The skin of this world,” he said quietly.

Reality is myself, reality is only the perception of this instant and it can't be related to another person.

People say it's not what happens in your life that matters, it's what you think happened. But this qualification, obviously, did not go far enough. It was quite possible that the central event of your life could be something that didn't happen, or something you thought didn't happen. Otherwise there'd be no need for fiction, there'd only be memoirs and histories.

The only reality I can possibly know is the world as I perceive it at this moment. The only reality you can possibly know is the world as you see it at this moment. And the only certainty is that those perceived realities are different. There are as many “real worlds” as there are people!

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.

Belief creates its own experience; therefore, such an experience is not true.

Reality is fabricated out of desire.

The human mind is a delusion generator, not a window to trurh.

My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's.

There is no order of things except in the human mind.

You see, if you make believe hard enough that something is true, then it is true for you.

People who confuse what they wish were true with what is really true create distorted pictures of reality that make it impossible for them to make the best choices.