Relative Reality Quotes

Reality simply consists of different points of view.

Your version of the truth is all that matters.

It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.

I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.

I'm coming 'round to the view that there's only a personal view of the world.

...reality is always plural and mutable.

The prism through which you experience life is so unique. There is no objective experience.

The universe would appear to be something like a piece of cheese; it can be sliced in an infinite number of ways- and when one has chosen his own pattern of slicing, he finds that other men's cuts fall at the wrong places.

Practical politics, being commonly an affair of compromise and relative truth,—a human attempt to modify the severity of Nature's processes …

Everyone's going to have their own experience and perspective on everything.

Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.

Whatever situation you are in, that is what is normal for you.

There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

I have a feeling Virtual Reality will further expose the conceit that 'reality' is a fact. It will provide another reminder of the seamless continuity between the world outside and the world within, delivering another major hit to the old fraud of objectivity. 'Real,' as Kevin Kelly put it, 'is going to be one of the most relative words we'll have.'

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.

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.

However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - in other words, not a thing, but a think.

From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.

Reality is a sliding door.

We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under.

There is no such thing as a true tale. Truth has many faces and the truth is like to the old road to Avalon; it depends on your own will, and your own thoughts, whither the road will take you.

Utopias and dystopias can exist side by side, even in the same moment. Which one you're in depends entirely on your point of view.

The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it.

Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events.

Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.