Michel de Montaigne Quotes

Things which we see are not by themselves what we see ... It remains completely unknown to us what the objects may be by themselves and apart from the receptivity of our senses. We know nothing but our manner of perceiving them.

The relationship between the imagined and the real is more complicated than people imagine.

There are many levels of truth.

The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.

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.

In every story of solipsism, there is always a conspiracy. Why? Because there is always a background involved in every perception.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion.

I don't believe there's any such thing as objective reality. It's only reality as we experience it.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.

Subjectivity and objectivity commit a series of assaults on each other during a human life out of which the first one suffers the worse beating.

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

There are only two types of people in the world. There are the people who understand that this is a matrix, and then there are the people who buy it lock, stock and barrel.

Reason is the illusion of reality

Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?

Perception was easily accomplished, required little effort, and it never had to stand the test of reality.

The world is my representation

Nonsense is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have superimposed on reality...Nonsense is nonsense only when we have not yet found that point of view from which it makes sense.

A thing is never seen as it really is.

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

It is only that my illusion is more real to me than reality. And so do we often build our world on an error, and cry out that the universe is falling to pieces, if any one but lift a finger to replace the error by truth.

That is the beauty of memory, isn’t it? Our reality is always clouded by our perceptions of truth. (Mnimi)

Reality is only just a word.

What we experience is our own concept of things. That is why no two people see quite the same world, and why, in many cases, different people see such different worlds. To put it another way, we make our own world by the way in which we think; for we really do live in a world of our own thoughts.