Tim LaHaye Quotes

What you think is real is your reality.

I'm trying to get more into other things, where reality is nothing but each individual's way of thinking.

Perception is reality. People take what they want to from things.

More important than innate disposition, objective experience, and environment is the subjective evaluation of these. Furthermore, this evaluation stands in a certain, often strange, relation to reality.

There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.

The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality

It is the bane and the balm of individual perception that 'objective' reality is seen through the filter of each person's temperament.

She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted.

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

The world could only be known as it existed in men's hearts. For while it seemed a place which contained men it was in reality a place contained within them.

The dream of life is really an illusion, and everybody lives in the reality he or she creates - a virtual reality that is only true for the one who creates it.

Perception is reality.

We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition.

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.

All experience is subjective.

I'm less interested in reality. I'm more interested in perception, the truth of the universe that we see.

Our capacity for belief is so plastic, we can convince ourselves of anything. Believing is seeing.

Facts are generally overesteemed. For most practical purposes, a thing is what men think it is. When they judged the earth flat, it was flat. As long as men thought slavery tolerable, tolerable it was. We live down here among shadows, shadows among shadows.

The truth is whatever people will believe is the truth.

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

What we believe, we see.

Truth, I have learned, differs for everybody. Just as no two people ever see a rainbow in exactly the same place - and yet both most certainly see it, while the person seemingly standing right underneath it does not see it at all - so truth is a question of where one stands, and the direction one is looking in at the time.

You create your response to reality, and that response, for all practical purposes, is your reality.

Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?

We're all subjective beings and trapped in our own realities and our own biographical stories and physical bodies and our histories - and that's the only way we can experience the world.