We see people not as they are, but as they appear to us.
Robert Greene • The Laws of Human Nature
Sooner or later we come to realize that perhaps the most fundamental, and most fundamentally important, fact about any experience is that it depends on the way of looking. That is to say, it is empty.4
Rob Burbea • Seeing That Frees: Meditations on Emptiness and Dependent Arising
But we, as humans, can look at a seemingly bizarre image, and realize that part of what we’re seeing is the lens itself.
Eliezer Yudkowsky • Rationality
We are those that see reality in a different way. Our point of view shows more than ordinary people can see. They see only what is outside, but we see what is inside. That's what we are - realists with the glasses of dreamers.