"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not a truth." (Marcus Aurelius, Roman leader, philosopher, Stoic).
I believe in this quote Marcus Aurelius is saying that everyone sees everything different. In this case there is no universality because not one person sees something the same as the next. If everything everyone sees is different there is no truth, and with no truth there is no basis for fact. Therefore, what one person says is just their thought, their view, their opinion. to you it is nothing but that, because what you perceive is completely different. What each individual sees is their own world, their unique perspective and therefore, nothing is truly as we see it. The cliche example of this is colors. My blue may be your black and so on. This concept is extremely hard to understand on a larger scale, because it rips apart reality. I believe parts of that. I believe there is a basis of truth. A main group of "real things" that everyone perceives the same, but after that everything for everyone is different.
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