Heraclitus Quotes

The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.

Those who are awake all live in the same world. Those who are asleep live in their own worlds.

There is but one world common for those who are awake, but when men are asleep, each turns away into a world of his own.

Man is firmly convinced that he is awake; in reality he is caught in a net of sleep and dreams which he has unconsciously woven himself.

What we experience is our own concept of things. That is why no two people see quite the same world, and why, in many cases, different people see such different worlds. To put it another way, we make our own world by the way in which we think; for we really do live in a world of our own thoughts.

Reality is myself, reality is only the perception of this instant and it can't be related to another person.

The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

It depends on which reality you take and which reality I take.” (p. 318).

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

One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.

You believe that you live in the world, where in fact the world lives within you.

The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.

You can't be conscious unless you have variable receptors... When people say the way I see the world is the way it is - that's ridiculous. We can only see it depending on the quality of our receptors and background.

May we not then sometimes define insanity as an inability to distinguish which is the waking and which the sleeping life? We often dream without the least suspicion of unreality: 'Sleep hath its own world', and it is often as lifelike as the other.

As for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream.

When you sleep, your dream world is as real to you as life, isn’t it?

Reason's a thing we dimly see in sleep.

All our interior world is reality, and that, perhaps, more so than our apparent world.

Truth and dreams are always getting muddled.

And for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream. But things that many see may have no taste or moment in them at all, and things that are shown only to one may be spears and water-spouts of truth from the very depth of truth.

The dreams are the skeleton of all reality.

Each member of the family in his own cell of consciousness, each making his own patchwork quilt of reality - collecting fragments of experience here, pieces of information there. From the tiny impressions gleaned from one another, they created a sense of belonging and tried to make do with the way they found each other.

We are all expressions of our own minds, projected onto the world.

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

Sometimes you wake up from a dream. Sometimes you wake up in a dream. And sometimes, every once in a while, you wake up in someone else's dream.