Andre Breton Quotes

A feeling is not a fact.

The world you see is less of an indication about the world and more of an indication about your seeing.

There are many levels of truth.

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.

The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion.

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.

Life is but thought.

I dream, therefore I exist.

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

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

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

There may not be one Truth - there may be several truths - but saying that is not to say that reality doesn't exist.

Complete objectivity is not an option. We are all subjective about the way we respond to 'what is,' whether it's the people we encounter, the circumstances in our lives, or ourselves. What we can do is reduce our subjectivity - what I call 'I see, therefore it is.'

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

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

Facts are not the truth. They only indicate where the truth may lie.

Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong

Objectivity in the end is an unattainable ideal.

There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth.

The knowable world is incomplete if seen from any one point of view, incoherent if seen from all points of view at once, and empty if seen from nowhere in particular.

It is the fact of life that a truth emerges out of a conflict between two wrongs.

Remember, we see the world not as it is but as we are. Most of us see through the eyes of our fears and our limiting beliefs and our false assumptions.

I always start with the assumption that everything that happens in the world is actually in the world. It sounds like an obvious thing to say, but it's a very powerful methodological premise.