Aim Quote by Epictetus

How you see things is how they appear. Think different and you'll see them differently.

— Anonymous

The appearance of things to the mind is the standard of every action to man.

— Epictetus

“Appearance is irrelevant, perception is irrelevant; what matters is that reality exists and that we are capable of understanding it. This is the absolute…

— Mike Klepper

Everything one sees is merely a projection of what one does not see, its true nature and substance.

— Fernando Sabino

The plurality that we perceive is only an appearance; it is not real. Vedantic philosophy... has sought to clarify it by a number of…

— Erwin Schrodinger

First, there is the person one thinks he is and the appearance one thinks he has. Then there is the thing one actually is,…

— Elizabeth Madox Roberts

“14. Where does the Root of the Illusion Lie? Now let us examine where illusion lies hidden from the view of these religionists. It…

— Kaiten Nukariya

Whatsoever accidents or qualities our senses make us think there be in the world, they are not there, but are seemings and apparitions only.…

— Thomas Hobbes

One of my principal concerns is the contradiction between appearance and reality - illusion and reality. I try to set up an expectation of…

— Stuart Pearson Wright

“There are times in life when the question of knowing if one can think differently than one thinks, and perceive differently than one sees,…

— Michel Foucault

Doth the Reality of sensible things consist in being perceived? or, is it something distinct from their being perceived, and that bears no relation…

— George Berkeley

You see, my good friend, how much we are the creatures of situation and circumstance, and with what pliant servility the mind resigns itself…

— Sydney, Lady Morgan