Irvine Welsh Quotes

We never know the reality of things: we see only what we are aware of. It is our consciousness that determines the shape of the world around us -- its size, motion and meaning.

The real world is much smaller than the imaginary

When you don't understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.

Our reality is influenced by our notions about reality, regardless of the nature of those notions

The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man.

There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

I think we all see the world from our own little unique bubble.

How you imagine the world determines how you live in it.

There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world.

I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it.

From what I could see, the hardwood was just fine. Then again, I'd just see a windmill and an open sky, too, never feeling the need to conquer either. You think it's all obvious and straightforward, this world. But really, it's all in who is doing the looking.

If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not.

The world isn't what you think it is.

Every one of us lives in a world that is no larger and no smaller than our understanding.

I think perception is important.

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

Don't confuse facts with reality.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

I think perspective is a necessary, amazing thing.

The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow.

We live within this reality we create, and we're quite unaware of how we create the reality. So the work is often a general koan into how we go about forming this world in which we live, in particular with seeing.