Daniel Keys Moran Quotes

Truth is, in fact, an elusive concept. It depends almost entirely on where you are standing at the time. It is a human instinct to confuse belief with truth.

Perception is reality.

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

Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality.

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

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

There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.

I'm less interested in reality. I'm more interested in perception, the truth of the universe that we see.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

The truth is whatever people will believe is the truth.

We think we receive all that we perceive, but in fact, we actually give the sky its colour.

Reason is the illusion of reality

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

Life is rarely about what happened; it's mostly about what we think happened.

Facts are neutral until human beings add their own meaning to those facts. People make their decisions based on what the facts mean to them, not on the facts themselves. The meaning they add to facts depends on their current story … facts are not terribly useful to influencing others. People don’t need new facts—they need a new story.

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

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

Reality is fabricated out of desire.

Who’s to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a nation? How can one group of people look at the world and see one thing, and another see something completely different? One sees a town, another sees a desert. One sees beauty, another sees chaos.” The skin of this world,” he said quietly.

The dream of life is really an illusion, and everybody lives in the reality he or she creates - a virtual reality that is only true for the one who creates it.

I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.

Our everyday, traditional ideas of reality are delusions which we spend substantial parts of our daily lives shoring up, even at the considerable risk of trying to force facts to fit our definition of reality instead of vice versa.

What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.

I don't mistrust reality, of which I know next to nothing. I mistrust the picture of reality conveyed to us by our senses, which is imperfect and circumscribed.

I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.