Lisa McMann Quotes

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.

... no bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.

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

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?

I think that reality exists and that it's knowable.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

I often wonder which is best, to be honest about what you know in this world, or to continue to deny you know it and thereby fool yourself into believing that it does not exist!

What is the truth? Is it what you experience? Is it what I experience? Or is there some objective truth in between?

I might as well doubt of my own being, as of the being of those things I actually see and feel.

If you never noticed, it never happened.

Is perception equivalent to existence?

Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.

What if a tree fell in the forest and no one knew it's biological name? Did it exist?

Although the pure truth has never been stated, nevertheless it has never been lost. Its existence does not depend upon human statement but upon human sensitivity. In this it is unlike all other knowledge.

A truth that no one knows is still the truth.

The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.

Because of its concrete content, sense-certainty immediately appears as the richest kind of knowledge, indeed a knowledge of infinite wealth for which no bounds can be found, either when we reach out into space and time in which it is dispersed, or when we take a bit of this wealth, and by division enter into it. Moreover, sense-certainty appears to be the truest knowledge ... but, in the event, this very certainty proves itself to be the most abstract and poorest truth. All that it says about what it knows is just that it is; and its truth contains nothing but the sheer being of the thing.

You do not have to imagine things; reality gives you all you need.

Thought can never be compared with action, but when it awakens in us the image of truth.

Even if I seemed to remember, I could not know. For just to remember something is not to know if it really happened. That is a primary fact of the inner life, the most difficult fact with which we must live.

Subjectivity is objective.

We may well ask, What causes induce us to believe in the existence of body? but 'tis vain to ask. Whether there be body or not? That is a point which we must take for granted in all our reasonings.

I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.