Toks Olagundoye Quotes

I see the world through my eyes. It's sometimes a strange world.

It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.

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.

Normal is all relative.

To a monster the norm must seem monstrous, since everyone is normal to himself.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time.

However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - in other words, not a thing, but a think.

People like things that make sense to them; your perspective is your reality.

The prism through which you experience life is so unique. There is no objective experience.

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes.

If it is not beautiful for someone, it does not exist.

Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.

The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.

Every one thinkes his sacke heaviest.

Seeing a play, listening to music - you'll always contextualize it in your own way. Whoever you are, wherever you are; I think that's really important.

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

The world is how we see the world. Some people see the world good, the other people see the world bad. Every person has an idea of the world with a subjective [viewpoint].

I never believe I'm presenting objective reality; I also don't want to delude people into thinking that my subject is talking directly to them.

It's easier to be skeptical because it's easier to understand that every human lives in their own world.

...Every single one of us goes through life depending on and bound by our individual knowledge and awareness. And we call it reality. However, both knowledge and awareness are equivocal. One's reality might be another's illusion. We all live inside our own fantasies, don't you think?

There is but one world common for those who are awake, but when men are asleep, each turns away into a world of his own.

You see persons and things not as they are but as you are.

What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience. I have to judge the world, to measure things.

The only thing that made me, or any of us, special was that no one in the whole of history would ever see the universe exactly the same way any other of us saw it.