John Hodgman Quotes

There are many levels of truth.

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

What you see is what you see.

People take reality for granted.

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

Nothing's ever real until it's real.

Truth is always a delusion.

Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions the nature of reality - it simply reproduces reality. And what good is that when the things of real value in life are invisible?

The truth is whatever people will believe is the truth.

In my long experience, one thing I know is that truth is elusive.

Things are only real after one has learned to agree on their realness. What took place this evening, for instance, cannot possibly be real to you, because no one could agree with you about it. 'Do you mean that you didn't see what happened?'. Of course I did. But I don't count. I am the one who's lying to you, remember?

You can tell a true war story by the questions you ask. Somebody tells a story, let's say, and afterward you ask, 'Is it true?' and if the answer matters, you've got your answer . . . Absolute occurrence is irrelevant. A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

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.

Reality can easily become the current fantasy.

The reality is more excellent than the report.

Reality is a concept that depends largely upon where you point your face.

Even if a man should chance to speak the most complete truth, yet he himself does not know it; all things are wrapped in appearances

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

What is reality if it isn't how we feel about things?

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

Reality is a question of perspective.

Truth and dreams are always getting muddled.

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.

It is still beautiful to hear the heart beat but often the shadow seems more real than the body.