Quotes About Reality

Dreams are reality at its most profound, and what you invent is truth because invention, by its nature, can't be a lie.

If we knew the truth, we'd see it; all else is system and outskirts.

If this be to have sense, if to be awake Be but to see this bright, great sleep of things, For the rarer potion mine own dreams I'll take And for truth commune with imaginings

Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.

Truth has scarce done so much good in the world as the false appearances of it have done hurt.

I saw more truth and sensitivity in art than I did in many of the people in this world.

Everything we see is an illusion. Even our perceptions of truth are illusory, illusory in the sense they're not complete.

None of this has ever been or will ever be; all is an appearance, all is an illusion. Illusions are truth. All illusions are real. We say illusion, meaning that they're shadows.

What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.

What are man's truths ultimately? Merely his irrefutable errors.

It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when it is pronounced unpleasant.

The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind of reality is absolutely indemonstrable.

Literature is subservient to nothing but truth.

I do think that calling a book nonfiction affirms a kind of responsibility to an attempt at truth.

Acting is the absence of acting. It's believing in the truth of the moment you are creating.

When you claim to have the truth, as opposed to the truth as you perceive it, then you move us toward a theocratic view of government.

Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

I paint the cot, As truth will paint it, and as bards will not.

But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it The diverse things they see.

To be boosted by an illusion is not to live better than to live in harmony with the truth ... these refusals to part with a decayed illusion are really an infection to the mind.

Nothing can be further than the truth.

La ve rite existe; on n'invente que le mensonge. Truth exists; only lies are invented.

No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error.