Francis Bacon Quotes

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

Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.

There is no order of things except in the human mind.

Your perception of the world is ... really a fabrication of your model of the world. You don't really see light or sound. You perceive it because your model says this is how the world is, and those patterns invoke the model. It's hard to believe, but it really is true.

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.

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.

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality.

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

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.

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

People say I have a distorted lens. I think I see things as they really are.

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

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

What we think about Paris is a part of how we feel about it. Our idea of Paris is our idea and we don't know that that's not necessarily the way it really is. It feels so real.

You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.

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

I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them.

The world you perceive is a drastically simplified model of the real world.

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

Perception is not always reality.

Because all the thought processes are limited, they are conditioned, and the thought does not touch directly with the reality, the truth; thoughts only grasps at the image of the truth.

... reality stands before them, yet they don't see it, because what you call real is just the mirror image of your expectations.

What each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but on pictures made by himself or given to him...

But Annabeth knew that people saw what they wanted to see. They didn’t need the Mist to warp their perceptions.