Carl Rogers Quotes

Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We're all limited by our perspective.

All of us create our own versions of an event, of our lives, even, not because we're liars, necessarily, but because we can only see and understand the truth from our own viewpoint, and a shifting viewpoint at that.

At the heart of 'The Famished Road' is a philosophical conundrum - for me, an essential one: what is reality? Everybody's reality is subjective; it's conditioned by upbringing, ideas, temperament, religion, what's happened to you.

People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. That’s how they define Reality. But what does it mean to be “correct” or “true”? Merely vague concepts… Their Reality may all be a mirage. Can we consider them to simply be living in their own world, shaped by their beliefs?

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

Reality! But what does this word mean? Each has his own reality. I draw upon my personal reality upon the dark side of myself, my unconscious.

Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.

Realty exists only through experience, and it must be personal experience.

Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.

I have a feeling Virtual Reality will further expose the conceit that 'reality' is a fact. It will provide another reminder of the seamless continuity between the world outside and the world within, delivering another major hit to the old fraud of objectivity. 'Real,' as Kevin Kelly put it, 'is going to be one of the most relative words we'll have.'

I'm coming 'round to the view that there's only a personal view of the world.

Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world, a world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans.

I'm fascinated by the mysterious element that runs through our lives. Everyone is looking out of the world through their emotion and history. Nobody has an absolute reality.

We tell specific stories about ourselves to ourselves and we're all the heroes of our own lives. But you live through certain experiences with other people, and sometimes they have very different takes on what happened.

Of course you're real-like any thought or any story. It's real when you're in it.

People think they know the mystery of living in your skin. They don't. There's no one who knows except the person who carts it around her own self.

Reality is not so much what happens to us; rather, it is how we think about those events that create the reality we experience. In a very real sense, this means that we each create the reality in which we live.

I had the feeling . . . that my experience was very different from other people’s. (Are we all under this illusion?)

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

The problem is that perception is reality.

Individuals have to decide what is true and real for them.

You can't tell someone they are wrong about their own life.

However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - in other words, not a thing, but a think.

Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation.

We are artists. We are all subjective people; we have a point of view. It doesn't mean we are right.