Anthony Trollope Quotes

Indeed, the line between perceiving and hallucinating is not as crisp as we like to think. In a sense, when we look at the world, we are hallucinating all the time. One could almost regard perception as the act of choosing the one hallucination that best fits the incoming data.

The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

A thought will color a world for us.

The mind abhors a vacancy & is wont to people it with phantoms.

When you burn the chair, you suddenly realize that the chair in your mind did not burn or disappear

A thing is never seen as it really is.

Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.

We say seeing is believing, but actually, we are much better at believing than at seeing. In fact, we are seeing what we believe all the time and occasionally seeing what we can't believe

The mind is smaller than the eye.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

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

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

Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.

The miracle of your mind isn't that you can see the world as it is. It's that you can see the world as it isn't.

What we think about Paris is a part of how we feel about it. Our idea of Paris is our idea and we don't know that that's not necessarily the way it really is. It feels so real.

Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.

I was fascinated with optical illusions.

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

Reality: What a concept!

The world you perceive is a drastically simplified model of the real world.

Perception is not always reality.

Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?

We don't all see the same way at all. Even if I'm sitting looking at you, there is always the memory of you as well. And a memory is now. So someone who's never met you before is seeing a different person. That's bound to be the case. We all see something different. I assume most people don't look very hard at anything.

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

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.