Paul Bloom Quotes

What you see is evidence of what you believe.

I'm able to separate fiction and reality. I guess it remains to be seen if other people are.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

Man soon finds what he wants to find. If he cannot find it otherwise, he creates it for his special enjoyment

What we believe, we see.

It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think.

The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.

We see what we want to believe.

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.

Even though the outside world has not changed, your brain dynamically presents different interpretations.

What you have carried in your mind about the world is what you will see around the world. What you carry in your mind about your life is what you will see in your life.

Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing.

Belief is the natural state of things. It is the default option. We just believe. We believe all sorts of things. Belief is natural; disbelief, skepticism, science, is not natural.

Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere.

You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.

Passion impels our deeds; ideology supplies the explanations.

Nonsense is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have superimposed on reality...Nonsense is nonsense only when we have not yet found that point of view from which it makes sense.

We always think from where we come from. We always think from the sources that shape our understanding. I think about the world through the lens of my Islamic tradition. I accept this but I must also have intellectual humility.

There's nothing wrong with the world. What's wrong is our way of looking at it.

What people believe prevails over the truth.

We look and see what we see in a mirror, and we believe it. That's important, the question of belief. The question is: Should we believe what we see in a mirror?

I know all too well that people only see what they want to see and remember only what they want to remember.

Belief releases creative powers.

We see only what we know.