Matthew Quick Quotes

An emotion as much tells you nothing about reality, beyond the fact that something makes you feel something.

There are many levels of truth.

What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

After a point it does not matter whether ... perceptions are true or false; it is the perceptions that matter.

There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth.

What is the truth? Is it what you experience? Is it what I experience? Or is there some objective truth in between?

The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not.

Reality is what we want it to be or what we do not want it to be, but it is not our wanting or our not wanting that makes it so.

The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.

[D]oes the real world have any more substance than visions and hallucinations when we're having them? At any given moment, what's happening in our minds is all and everything that happens.

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

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

What you see is what you see.

I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

Truth is always a delusion.

All experience is subjective.

Don't confuse facts with reality.

Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.

Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.

I think what happens is when we start to look at the facts, everybody has their impression of what truth is.

In my long experience, one thing I know is that truth is elusive.