Andre Kertesz Quotes

Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory. We are not satisfied with faith, in the sense of an implausible hypothesis irrationally held: we demand to experience the "evidence".

When anything is present to the mind, what is the very first and simplest character to be noted in it, in every case, no matter how little elevated the object may be? Certainly, it is its presentness .

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact.

Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.

It's important you don't lose touch with reality because, well, reality's the only thing you've got, really.

Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it's there it doesn't require your belief- and if it's not there why should you believe in it?

It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!

We never see a tree except through the image that we have of it, the concept of that tree; but the concept, the knowledge, the experience, is entirely different from the actual tree. Look at a tree and you will find how extraordinarily difficult it is to see it completely, so that no image, no screen, comes between the seeing and the actual fact. By completely I mean with the totality of your mind and heart, not a fragment of it.

Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.

in the presence of extraordinary actuality, consciousness takes the place of imagination.

A truth that no one knows is still the truth.

I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered that I didn't need to. If the thing is true, why there it is.

It is not after we understand the truth that we attain enlightenment. To realize the truth is to live - to exist here and now.

Few men have imagination enough for reality.

If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?

Every single moment is expressive of the truth of our lives when we know how to look.

The part of my brain that was responsible for creating the world I lived and moved in and for taking the raw data that came in through my senses and fashioning it into a meaningful universe: that part of my brain was down, and out. And yet despite all of this, I had been alive, and aware, truly aware, in a universe characterized above all by love, consciousness, and reality. There was, for me, simply no arguing this fact. I knew it so completely that I ached.

There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.

Life is consciousness.

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore

For the moment, what we attend to is reality.

Reality is the completion of experience.

All appearances are real and negatio; sophistical: All reality must be sensation.

The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.