Quotes About Reality

All faith is false, all faith is true. Truth is the shattered mirror strown in myriad bits, while each believes his little bit the whole to own.

Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach.

The truth comes when you can see that your self-image is just a convenient reference point and nothing more, and that you as you had imagined yourself do not exist.

Our greatest illusion is disillusion. We imagine that we are disillusioned with life, when the truth is that we have not even begun to live.

Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.

Nothing is absolute any longer. There is a choice of beliefs and a choice of truths to go with them. If you choose not to choose then there is no truth at all. There are only points of view.

The truth doesn't care what we think of it.

Any claims on the truth in my pictures are only to be answered in the sense that a particular event did in fact happen and did take place in the here and now.

Truth is in history, but history is not the truth.

I create situations that do not exist. I seek the truth from fiction.

The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.

We say that the truth will make us free. Yes, but that truth is a thousand truths which grow and change.

The truth can only be recalled, never invented.

Truth breeds power, and truth never perishes.

The dreamer's untamed eye sees beyond the illusions to the heart of what is real.

There is nothing more ancient than the truth.

People say the truth hurts. Hell no, it hurts even more if you do a whole bunch of foolishness to try and avoid it.

Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

Truth [is] what is better for us to believe.

My view is that when lies become mixed up with the truth, it's a very dangerous world.

Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.

Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way

We angels are misconceived in the human world. People perceive us as kindly and bountiful; when, in truth, we are about as fluffy, as gentle, as yielding, as rattlesnakes.