Colin Wilson Quotes

People see what they want to see when they need to.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.

Perception is one millionth of one percent reality (truth in fact).

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

I think we all see the world from our own little unique bubble.

We usually see only the things we are looking for- so much so that we sometimes see them where they are not.

Most people see what they want to, or at least what they expect to.

The blind see what they want 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.

The physical universe that you see is all in your mind. When you turn your mind off, or become unconscious, the physical universe, for you, disappears. Then, when you awaken your consciousness, the universe reappears magically. Quite simple really - no thoughts on your part, no physical world. As Walt Whitman succinctly stated: "The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual - namely to You." Without your mind to process it, the universe simply disappears into nothingness.

The world doesn't usually affect us directly. It's what we do with it. It's the filters that we put on it. That's the foundation of certainly most pop-psychology, and of a lot of psychotherapy, cognitive therapy. So that, I think, is the greatest truth.

Your perception plays tricks when you are hoping for something.

We only see what we want to see, and hear what we want to hear

Psychology is the description of the reflection of the terrestial world in the heavenly plane, or, more correctly, the description of a reflection such as we, soaked as we are in our terrestial nature, imagine it, for no reflection actually occurs, only we see earth wherever we turn.

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

We forget that the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the sun and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it.

Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much that lies before us. We want a simple world, but we live in a magnificently complex one, and rather than open ourselves to it, we perceive the world through filters that make it less daunting.

We make our own world by the way in which we think; for we really do live in a world of our own thoughts.

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

All things show up in the world according to the purposes we ascribe to them.

Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior.

The sense organs, which are limited in scope and ability, randomly gather information. This partial information is arranged into judgments, which are based on previous judgments, which are usually based on someone else's foolish ideas. These false concepts and ideas are then stored in a highly selective memory system.

What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things.

We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.