Do We Not See Things As They Are, But See Them As We Are?

Answer 1

For sure, 'cause we, closed into ourselves, knowing only our world, we can only project our conscience all around us, like in a distorted mirror that reflect what we wanna see. But things are true in spite of us. This way doing, leave us always more isolated and lonely. So, it's imperative trying to do an effort to change us. When we could be able to see the other in his really being, and not seeing in him our bad qualities or lacks, that will be the moment to see our real truth.

Answer 2

Maybe we only see what we want to see.
Maybe the 'truth' is that we must go beyond our frail selves if we are to see what is really 'true'.
But is that 'truth' just another illusion?
It's a circular argument, I know.
I prefer looking at the world through the eyes of an innocent. Perhaps not seeing, at all.
Maybe I'm just stumbling around in the dark, walking in darkness.

Answer 3

We are not victims of the world we see, We are victims of the way we see the world. I guess we learn how to see the world by experience, and interpreting what we have seen by using that experience. Sounds like a reason that things keep getting worse; its a matter of perception

Answer 4

This isn't a black-and-white question. Some say all truth is subjective, but they fail to qualify this sweeping generalization. Better: All truth is marginally subjective.
If you get to the point of entertaining a doubt about whether the baseball bat that just clobbered you in the head is real, you're not being philosophically circumspect, you're being idiotic.
Of course we attach meanings to things according to the subjective purposes of our cognitions, but this isn't to say that every aspect of our experience is 100% subjective.

Answer 5

I think that's a very profound question, and I think the answer is yes, we view all things through the filter of our own paradigms. An interesting movie (what the bleep do we know and how do we know it) attempts to look at that very subject. you can go to that site www.whatthebleep.com and you might be interested to check it out...by the way, great question, I'll be interested to see the answers you get...

Answer 6

yes, as we are,
our sensations create memories, and from here
perceptions are compounded which become a series of
memories of sensations and again which in turn forms
our words and hence speech and here we develop concepts
and ideas, of what we think we know,
sensation, perception and conception,
all are a property of our consciousness to the external
world having reference from our psychic dimension of who
we have become ~ what we see is what we feel from
within and not related to the external word where time
means nothing except what we add to motion and space ~
And because we experience, sensation, perceptions and
create concepts our receptivity is an augmentation of in coming
actions of our human instincts to discriminate what each
of us feel we see and how we think in making reality into
a rational reflex of experiences in sensations ~

Answer 7

we see things as they are through seeing them as we are.

Answer 8

Many people believe that we see only what we want to see. Look at FOX News, biased.

Answer 9

We see things as we believe that we should see them. There are many things there that we don't even see...
Our reality is subjective so it is impossible to see things "as they are", we must see them as "we are".
We create our own reality.

Answer 10

We see things as we were told to see things. Could be white, and it is obvioulsy white, but I blind man will say it is black. Imagine that.

The Syko Ward