Consensus Reality Quotes

A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.

Wikipedia works because those who know the truth are usually more numerous and committed than those who believe in a falsehood.

What other people think is more important than what we feel.

People are expecting me to be a certain way all the time. It's not like if I come in here with a totally different personality and right before the camera starts they see this new character. It confuses everything. Life has a consensus reality to it and if you use that to your advantage it makes it much easier.

The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon.

A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.

I've got billions of sparrows to worry about as well as everything else'. So there's the whole idea that whatever it is that you believe, it can never be valid unless you have some consensus reality demonstration.

History is an agreed-upon fiction.

If facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily "socially constructed" notions, then all that is left is consensus--more specifically peer consensus, the kind of consensus that matters to adolescents or to many among the intelligentsia.

The truth isn't a thing of fact or reason. It is simply what everyone agrees on.

Everything is the way it is because we've all agreed that's the way it is.

We chart delusions through collective agreement.

One point is certain, that truth is one and immutable; until the jurors all agree, they cannot all be right.

If he thinks he floats off the floor, and if I simultaneously think I see him do it, then the thing happens.

Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers. Even if that reality is patently invented and ludicrous, belief is encouraged with gifts that support and promote the common cultural lies. The greatest consensus in modern society is our traffic systems. The way a flood of strangers can interact, sharing a path, almost all of them traveling without incident. It only takes one dissenting driver to create anarchy.