Hans-Georg Gadamer Quotes

People want to see the world the way they want to see it, not the way it is.

Reality can easily become the current fantasy.

Inside each of us resides the truth, I began, the absolute truth. But sometimes the truth is hidden in a hall of mirrors. Sometimes we believe we are viewing the real thing, when in fact we are viewing a facsimile, a distortion.

Perception is real even when it is not reality.

Truth is always a delusion.

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.

Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.

Watt's concern, deep as it appeared, was not after all what the figure was, in reality, but with what the figure appeared to be, in reality.

History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.

If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.

Truth and dreams are always getting muddled.

Those who tell you that man is unable to perceive a reality undistorted by his senses, mean that they are unwilling to perceive a reality undistorted by their feelings. "Things as they are" are things as perceived by your mind; divorce them from reason and they become "things as perceived by your wishes.

Reality has actually very little to do with truth; there is no necessary connection between the two.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

What you see is what you see.

We see things as we are, not as they are.

Exaggeration is my only reality.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.

Belief and seeing: They are both often wrong.

Truth is an illusory notion.

Perception's not reality.

I feel that one of the most important lessons that can be learned is that what we "see" may be different than what is actually in front of us.

All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.