Yorgos Lanthimos Quotes

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.

A man sees only what concerns him.... How much more, then, it requires different intentions of the eye and of the mind to attend to different departments of knowledge! How differently the poet and the naturalist look at objects!

We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.

The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."

Observing someone without context amplifies the experience. The more we know, the less we are able to feel.

What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.

I think perception is important.

A world view is probably an expression of self.

Different people, in good faith, can look at the same fact and interpret it differently. But that's where an interesting conversation begins.

Paradigms are like glasses. When you have incomplete paradigms about yourself or life in general, it's like wearing glasses with the wrong prescription. That lens affects how you see everything else.

Everybody that listens to something hears it differently from their own perspective. And you can't please everyone. Don't even try. Please yourself first and then try to please those people around you that you feel know what you're doing.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.

The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.

There are always two or three or four sides to every story.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.

It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It's better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it's a very personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for somebody else.

I don't think you really can send an exact message, because any two viewers are so disparate, in terms of their backgrounds, their point of view, their histories, that there's no telling what that message might be.

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.