Constructed Reality Quotes

You don't know reality until someone makes a fiction of it. Reality needs the completion of fiction.

Perception is reality.

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

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Whoever defines the word, defines the world.

What we think about Paris is a part of how we feel about it. Our idea of Paris is our idea and we don't know that that's not necessarily the way it really is. It feels so real.

If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.

The truth is whatever people will believe is the truth.

I'm less interested in reality. I'm more interested in perception, the truth of the universe that we see.

So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas.

It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most 'familiarity' is meditated and delusive.

The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.

If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

There's a difference between reality TV and reality. There's a big difference.

This... is a synthetic world many of us live in today - a dream, if you will.

There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.

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

Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance.

I know that everyone who listens to radio creates you in a visual image that they need you to have. Whatever that is, I thought, let them have it. Let me be who the listener needs me to be and let me not contradict that with the reality of my photograph and risk disappointing them.

Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.

This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.

It's an odd experience reading interviews with yourself. Interesting, though. Of course, you know that the journalist will have edited, rephrased or even rewritten what you actually said, but you can't help feeling that there's a special kind of truth in the way someone else paints you, however subjective they might be.

Anything processed by memory is fiction.

You will not ever perceive the truth that is reality. There are many realities.