Joe Haldeman Quotes

No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

Nothing has existence unless you, I, or some living creature perceives it, and how it is perceived further influences that reality. Even time itself is not exempted from biocentrism.

We know that reality was a well known liberal bias.

We see the universe the way it is because we exist.

How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?

More important than innate disposition, objective experience, and environment is the subjective evaluation of these. Furthermore, this evaluation stands in a certain, often strange, relation to reality.

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.

Reality is what we want it to be or what we do not want it to be, but it is not our wanting or our not wanting that makes it so.

Consensus reality seemed like a dull, dead-end street compared to the intense, mutable reality of visions or whatever they were - neurological misfires. I expected life to be full of sudden, inexplicable surprises. When these things didn't happen for a while, life seemed dull and painful.

Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.

In no way did I allow reality as it was to intrude on reality as I wanted it to be.

After all, across the population there are slight differences in brain function, and sometimes these translate directly into different ways of experiencing the world. And each individual believes his way is reality.

It is the bane and the balm of individual perception that 'objective' reality is seen through the filter of each person's temperament.

Reality is a question of perspective.

Fantasy is often closer to reality than what most people accept as reality.

Or -- and this she knew was a far more accurate way of looking at it -- the book was true and reality was lying.

If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.

The insane do not share the normal prejudice in favor of external reality.

I don't mistrust reality, of which I know next to nothing. I mistrust the picture of reality conveyed to us by our senses, which is imperfect and circumscribed.

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

A lot of what we're doing here deals with perception rather than truth. Many would argue that reality depends more on the former than the latter.

Who’s to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a nation? How can one group of people look at the world and see one thing, and another see something completely different? One sees a town, another sees a desert. One sees beauty, another sees chaos.” The skin of this world,” he said quietly.

Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant.