Perceptual Reality Quotes

When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.

Everything that you can see in the world around you presents itself to your eyes only as an arrangement of patches of different colors.

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees. No one can tell him about that. No one can control that reality. It reminds me of something Pablo Picasso was supposed to have said to Gertrude Stein while he was painting her portrait. Gertrude said, “I don’t look like that.” And Picasso replied, “You will.” And he was right.

Reality is mind-made.

The percept is the reality. It is not in propositional form. But the most immediate judgment concerning it is abstract. It is therefore essentially unlike the reality, although it must be accepted as true to that reality. Its truth consists in the fact that it is impossible to correct it, and in the fact that it only professes to consider one aspect of the percept.

Colours exist for me as entities in themselves, as metaphysical beings.

Human vision is endowed with the greatest Reality, since it comes to us directly from the contemplation of the Universe.

A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment.

The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.

Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.

My friends, I tell you repeatedly that the illusion that Life creates is very, very intelligent. The illusion itself is intelligent! Just understand how intelligent the intelligence must be in order to create an intelligent illusion. The intelligent illusion is so intelligent it will appear real to man every moment of his daily life!

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.

In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.

Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a ‘real’ experience.

The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody.

A picture is a fact.

The world is a construct of our sensations, perceptions, memories. It is convenient to regard it as existing objectively on its own. But it certainly does not become manifest by its mere existence.

Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.

Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not.

When van Gogh paints sunflowers, he reveals, or achieves, the vivid relation between himself, as man, and the sunflower, as sunflower, at that quick moment of time. His painting does not represent the sunflower itself. We shall never know what the sunflower itself is. And the camera will visualize the sunflower far more perfectly than van Gogh can.

Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

A thousand years ago, scientists who wondered about consciousness and the nature of reality were burned at the stake. We still haven't recovered from that and it's left us with a culture that no longer investigates consciousness, except on the fringes.

We live equally out of our bodies and out of our minds.

The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.