Wallace Stevens Quotes

Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.

You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.

The truth is whatever people will believe is the truth.

We all look at the same object in different ways.

One place exists as their interpretation of it. For the people living and thriving inside of it, it's another place.

The reality we live in is selected by our conceptual definitions. You and I may be in the same physical space, but each of us will see it as entirely different.

Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We're all limited by our perspective.

There are many levels of truth.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality.

Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.

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

Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.

Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not so much of a number of different realities, but of a number of different lenses with which to see the same reality.

Different men often see the same subject in different lights

The world you perceive is a drastically simplified model of the real world.

It is not important whether or not the interpretation is correct-- if men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.

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.

What we're showing may not be your reality, but it's ours.

We think we receive all that we perceive, but in fact, we actually give the sky its colour.

Perception is reality. People take what they want to from things.

When people don't understand what they're watching, a lot of what they perceive has to do with who they themselves are.

Reality is mind-made.

The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.

It depends on which reality you take and which reality I take.” (p. 318).