Jacque Fresco Quotes

Perception is not always reality.

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

Perception is created and twisted so quickly.

The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.

It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most 'familiarity' is meditated and delusive.

Belief and seeing: They are both often wrong.

Perception's not reality.

Fantasies are not always what people think they are.

Perception was easily accomplished, required little effort, and it never had to stand the test of reality.

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.

It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.

Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

In every story of solipsism, there is always a conspiracy. Why? Because there is always a background involved in every perception.

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

Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

The miracle of your mind isn't that you can see the world as it is. It's that you can see the world as it isn't.

Truth is always a delusion.

Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

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.

It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.

It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.

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