Iain Banks Quotes

There is no one truth. There’s only what happened, based on how you perceive it.

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

Reality is a concept that depends largely upon where you point your face.

What is nonsense, and what is not, then, may be merely a matter of perspective.

There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.

When someone starts talking to me about the truth, what I hear is what they're telling me about themselves.

Truth is only a question of point of view.

If the truth is told, things are just as bad as you yourself care to make them.

We don't all see the same way at all. Even if I'm sitting looking at you, there is always the memory of you as well. And a memory is now. So someone who's never met you before is seeing a different person. That's bound to be the case. We all see something different. I assume most people don't look very hard at anything.

Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological.

The truth isn't all things to all people all of the time.

From what I could see, the hardwood was just fine. Then again, I'd just see a windmill and an open sky, too, never feeling the need to conquer either. You think it's all obvious and straightforward, this world. But really, it's all in who is doing the looking.

Lots of people are unable to see all kinds of truths right in front of their eyes." "The world is what we make it, and our future is ours to shape.

Your whole life is nothing but a dream. You live in a fantasy where everything you know about yourself is only true for you. Your truth is not the truth for anyone else.

Reality is a question of perspective.

There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.

My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's.

Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.

Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.

The claim that everybody sees the world differently is not a claim that there's no reality. It's a different kind of claim.

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

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

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

All experience is subjective.