John Berger Quotes

My perspective will create my perception

I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.

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

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

One place exists as their interpretation of it. For the people living and thriving inside of it, it's another place.

Truth, I have learned, differs for everybody. Just as no two people ever see a rainbow in exactly the same place - and yet both most certainly see it, while the person seemingly standing right underneath it does not see it at all - so truth is a question of where one stands, and the direction one is looking in at the time.

Your thoughts do not create reality, but they do create your experience.

There are as many "real worlds" as there are people!

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

To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is – in other words, not a thing, but a think.

There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.

It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.

There is no one truth. There’s only what happened, based on how you perceive it.

Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.

All you see in your world is the outcome of your idea about it.

The claim that everybody sees the world differently is not a claim that there's no reality. It's a different kind of claim.

The world could only be known as it existed in men's hearts. For while it seemed a place which contained men it was in reality a place contained within them.

You see, if you make believe hard enough that something is true, then it is true for you.

What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real.

Cubism did not accept the logical consequences of its own discoveries; it was not developing abstraction towards its own goal, the expression of pure reality.

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

When you don't understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.

What you think is an illusion created by your glands, your emotions and, in the last analysis, by the content of your stomach. That gray matter you're so proud of is like a mirror in an amusement park which transmits to you nothing but distorted signals from reality forever beyond your grasp.

We insist that society should conform to our own subjective illusion of reality.

It's the Point of Your View that Decides What You See - / One Man's Flop Is Another Man's Hit. / From Manners to Movies, the Picture Keeps Changing / Depending Upon Where You Sit.