Ben Horowitz Quotes

The difference between a vision and a hallucination is that other people can see the vision.

As for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream.

What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.

People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.

The difference between closing or opening your eyes is the choice between the imagined vs real. Blinking is only human.

An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality.

Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

The camera can photograph thought.

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

We think that the world is a solid, vivid place, full of shape and colour and solid objects like this table and this microphone and so on, but we actually create that in our heads out of the bits of information that hit the back of our eyeballs or hit our eardrums or hit our tongues or whatever.

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

The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?

The world consists of images on a screen, and consciousness is the steady light that emanates from the projector.

How do we see physically? No differently that we do in our consciousness - by means of the productive power of imagination. Consciousness is the eye and ear, the sense for inner and outer meaning.

The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.

Imagination comes from yourself and can deceive you, but vision is a gift from outside yourself - like light striking on your closed eyelids and lifting them to see what's really there.

You have to learn to hallucinate.

In your head, a sunset can go on for days

The only difference between heaven and hell is believing a thought.

A man who saw a miracle would reject his eyes' witness, if those with him saw nothing.

Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be.

The imagination is not the consolation people pretend. It can even be regarded as the admission of some sort of failure.