# Quote — Peter L. Berger, The Social Construction of Reality

> It will be enough, for our purposes, to define 'reality' as a quality appertaining to phenomena that we recognize as having a being independent of our own volition (we cannot 'wish them away'), and to define 'knowledge' as the certainty that phenomena are real and that they possess specific characteristics.

- Author: [Peter L. Berger](https://www.leafyquotes.com/peter-l-berger.md)
- Book: [The Social Construction of Reality](https://www.leafyquotes.com/peter-l-berger/the-social-construction-of-reality.md)
- Page: 1
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Peter_L._Berger#The_Social_Construction_of_Reality,_1966) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Topics: [knowledge](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/knowledge.md), [reality](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reality.md)
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