Alfred Adler Quotes

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

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

Perception is reality. People take what they want to from things.

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.

Now that's a concept that's always fascinated me: the real world. Only a very specific subset of people use the term, have you noticed? To me, it seems self-evident that everyone lives in the real world - we all breathe real oxygen, eat real food, the earth under our feet feels equally solid to all of us. But clearly these people have a far more tightly circumscribed definition of reality, one that I find deeply mysterious, and an almost pathologically intense need to bring others into line with that definition.

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

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

There is no one truth. There’s only what happened, based on how you perceive it.

The problem is that perception is reality.

We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition.

All experience is subjective.

We know that reality was a well known liberal bias.

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

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.

What each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but on pictures made by himself or given to him...

We occupy a space of our own creation-a collage compounded by bits and pieces of actuality arranged into a design determined by our internal perceptions, our hopes, our fears, our memories, and our anticipations.

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

The reality we live in is selected by our conceptual definitions. You and I may be in the same physical space, but each of us will see it as entirely different.

Reality is what we want it to be or what we do not want it to be, but it is not our wanting or our not wanting that makes it so.

The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.

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

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.

You say they create their own reality," said Veronika, "but what is reality?

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

None of us see the world as it is but as we are, as our frames of reference, or maps, define the territory.