Francis Bacon Quotes

The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

When you look directly at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your own knowledge that he's insane, which is not to see him at all.

If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don't know you have it, you don't have it. If you don't have it but you think you have it, then you have it.

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

We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

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

In order to survive, we cling to all we know and understand. And label it reality. But knowledge and understanding are ambiguous. That reality could be an illusion. All humans live with the wrong assumptions. Isn't that another way of looking at it? That sharingan how much can you really se?

If you stare long enough at anything, you will start to find similarities. The word “coincidence” exists in order to stop people from seeing meaning where none exists.

so mortals tend to see only what they can understand.

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.

We're all looking from the point of view of our own reality tunnels. And when we begin to realize that we're all looking from the point of view of our own reality tunnels, we find that it is much easier to understand where other people are coming from. All the ones who don't have the same reality tunnel as us do not seem ignorant, or deliberately perverse, or lying, or hypnotized by some mad ideology, they just have a different reality tunnel. And every reality tunnel might tell us something interesting about our world, if we're willing to listen.

Every human being relies on and is bounded by his knowledge and experience to live. This is what we call “reality”. However, knowledge and experience are ambiguous, thus reality can become illusion. Is it not possible to think that, all human beings are living in their assumptions?

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.

Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.

I believe that we face incredible obstacles in our attempts to see the world. Everything in our nature tries to deny the world around us; to refabricate it in our own image; to reinvent it for our own benefit. And so, it becomes something of a challenge, a task, to recover (or at least attempt to recover) the real world despite all the impediments to that end.

Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.

I don't want to fool people. If I wanted to do that, I would be working with virtual reality. I want to operate on the other level, the other end of the illusion spectrum. I want to create the worst possible illusions so it doesn't really fool people, but instead give people a measure of their own belief. It makes them aware of how much they need to be fooled in order to understand the world around them.

Experience teaches us not to assume that the obvious is clearly understood

The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish" - Tyrion Lannister

We believe we're seeing the world just fine until it's called to our attention that we're not.

...dreams were dreams and reality was reality and she felt people were better off understanding the difference.

If they [the dead] should speak, it would be found that in matters of opinion no departed person was exactly what he had passed for in life. They would realise, deep down, that they, and whole nations along with them, are not really what they seem to be-and never can be.