Who said: There is no such thing as reality only perception, but each person's perception is their own reality

Answer 1

Descartes. Cognito ergo sum and I add that perception, by primates, is infinitesimal

Answer 2

AN INTERVIEW WITH U.G. KRISHNAMURTI

Q : Is there such a thing as Reality?

U. G. : No. Even if the scientists are trying to assert that they know Reality better than all the spiritual teachers and metaphysicists put together. There is no way you can experience the Reality of anything. And I maintain and assert with all the emphasis at my command, that which you do not know, you cannot experience. What you do not know is a concept , you see.

Q : Some people use the term 'pure subjectivity' to describe Reality.

U. G. : Philosophers have talked about 'pure perception'. There cannot be any perception, let alone pure perception, without the perceiver. These are all the games that we play with ourselves and with others. There cannot be any perception without the perceiver. And why talk of pure perception, I don't understand? So, this is also the way the Indians have dealt with this problem. One disciple tells others that "my guru is in the Turiya state, the highest state." And according to me, the Turiya state is Alzheimer's disease. You see, they don't have any problems, they don't recognise anything, they don't experience anything.

http://www.inner-quest.org/UG.htm

Answer 3

“The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze.” ~ Buddha

“It exists in utopia. In reality, there's no such things as the 'ultimate' anything. The only way to achieve it is in the lab, and even then, that's probably not even realistic.” ~ Carmi Levy

“Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality” ~ Alexis Carrel

“If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as if it is, infinite” ~ William Blake

“In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence, for he finds it impossible to imagine that he is the first to have thought out the exceedingly delicate threads that connect his perceptions” ~ Albert Einstein

“Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.” ~ Edward de Bono

“There is no truth. There is only perception.” ~ Gustave Flaubert

Answer 4

I didn't know that was an actual quotation! But it is something that I have always said. I would think it must be someone who suffered a mental illness because that's when I started to think this way having recurrent depression.

It's quite scary that you can perceive things in a very different way to others. Also based on all your life experiences, everything will have a slightly different meaning to everyone.

So I'll be interested to find out who said this first!

Answer 5

Sounds like something Korzybski would say...but not sure

search anti-realism

Answer 6

Protagoras said something with that meaning but not that exact quote.

Answer 7

In this reality? You did.

Answer 8

You just did!!