Mohsen Makhmalbaf Quotes

Perception is reality.

I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.

All of us create our own versions of an event, of our lives, even, not because we're liars, necessarily, but because we can only see and understand the truth from our own viewpoint, and a shifting viewpoint at that.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

There may not be one Truth - there may be several truths - but saying that is not to say that reality doesn't exist.

You will not ever perceive the truth that is reality. There are many realities.

As globalization proceeds, tribalism increases.

How do I hold my truth to be the truth when everyone else believes their truth to be different.

… what is true for me may be blasphemy for others.

There are always three sides to every memory…yours, theirs, and the truth, which lies somewhere in between the two

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

Reality is irrelevant; Perception is everything.

Reality is a question of perspective.

I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism--the idolatry of the 20th century.

Perception is reality. If you are perceived to be something, you might as well be it because that's the truth in people's minds.

Of course there's objective truth, but when we're looking at people's accounts of it, it seems the real truth lies in the accretion of all these different versions.

You can't talk about truth unless you talk about yourself.

You only have to glance at the daily news to see how passions are stirred by claims of exclusive loyalty to one's own kin, one's own clan, one's own country, and one's own church. These ties that bind are vital to our communities and our lives, but they can also be twisted into a noose.

When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.

We tell specific stories about ourselves to ourselves and we're all the heroes of our own lives. But you live through certain experiences with other people, and sometimes they have very different takes on what happened.

There can be many opinions on a thing, but there is only one truth." Vashet smiled lazily. "And if the pursuit of the truth was my goal, that would concern me." She gave a long yawn, stretching like a happy cat. "Instead I will focus on the joy in my heart, [...}

I never aspire to be objective because I don't believe in objectivity. It's important to be truthful, and it's important to make sure that the audience has a solid sense of what the expectation should be of a particular film.

What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.

The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.