Jacque Fresco Quotes

People assume that they perceive reality as it is, that our senses accurately record the outside world. Yet the science suggests that, in important ways, people experience reality not as it is, but as they expect it to be.

Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies.

The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.

You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?

What each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but on pictures made by himself or given to him...

Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be.

Lots of people are unable to see all kinds of truths right in front of their eyes." "The world is what we make it, and our future is ours to shape.

It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them.

Things which we see are not by themselves what we see ... It remains completely unknown to us what the objects may be by themselves and apart from the receptivity of our senses. We know nothing but our manner of perceiving them.

None of us see the world as it is but as we are, as our frames of reference, or maps, define the territory.

As for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream.

My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's.

Indeed, the line between perceiving and hallucinating is not as crisp as we like to think. In a sense, when we look at the world, we are hallucinating all the time. One could almost regard perception as the act of choosing the one hallucination that best fits the incoming data.

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

Perceptual reality is different for different species. In certain species it is a mode of observation, so what we call scientific fact is actually not ultimate truth, it is perceptual experience, and it's a mode of observation.

When I see a colour or hear a sound, I am aware of something, and not of nothing.

All experience is subjective.

Perception is reality. People take what they want to from things.

Perception rules the world. Everyone knows that. Where we live and where we're from, you just can't escape it.

The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

The author isn't altogether certain that there is any such thing as exaggeration. Our brains permit us to use such a wee fraction of their resources that, in a sense, everything we experience is a reduction. We employ drugs, yoga techniques and poetics - and a thousand more clumsy methods - in an effort just to bring things back up to normal.

But Annabeth knew that people saw what they wanted to see. They didn’t need the Mist to warp their perceptions.

Some people say, the world can be so alive! It always is, you just do not know it because of the screen of your thinking. You notice it as you become more awake.

The reality we live in is selected by our conceptual definitions. You and I may be in the same physical space, but each of us will see it as entirely different.

The world is my representation