Alethea Kontis Quotes

To a monster the norm must seem monstrous, since everyone is normal to himself.

Normal is in the eye of the beholder.

Maybe your weird is my normal. Who's to say?

From what I could see, the hardwood was just fine. Then again, I'd just see a windmill and an open sky, too, never feeling the need to conquer either. You think it's all obvious and straightforward, this world. But really, it's all in who is doing the looking.

The only thing that made me, or any of us, special was that no one in the whole of history would ever see the universe exactly the same way any other of us saw it.

I always wonder why some people see things as weird and some people don't.

There is no one truth. There’s only what happened, based on how you perceive it.

I don't know what 'normal' means, anyway.

Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.

One man’s oddball is another man’s square.

Truth is, in fact, an elusive concept. It depends almost entirely on where you are standing at the time. It is a human instinct to confuse belief with truth.

Truth, I have learned, differs for everybody. Just as no two people ever see a rainbow in exactly the same place - and yet both most certainly see it, while the person seemingly standing right underneath it does not see it at all - so truth is a question of where one stands, and the direction one is looking in at the time.

No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.

There are as many "real worlds" as there are people!

It's easier to be skeptical because it's easier to understand that every human lives in their own world.

I don't think anyone's normal.

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient.

each of us only feels the torn lining of his own coat and sees the wholeness of the other person's.

One person's crazy is another person's refreshing.

None of us see the world as it is but as we are, as our frames of reference, or maps, define the territory.

I personally subscribe to the belief that normal is just a setting on the dryer.

There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.

Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.

Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception.

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.