Quotes About Reality

If we can get to the truth, we can change anything.

That's the question: is truth an illusion, or is illusion truth, or are they essentially the same? Myself, I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.

To establish what is true is very difficult. Frequently it is easier to establish what is false. And, passing through the false, it's possible to understand something about truth.

I want to know the truth, however perverted that may sound.

Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger.

The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why, and how it is said.

A poet's first contract is with truth.

Fantasy plunders the well of our deepest selves for existent truth instead of creating new truths out of the illusory fabric of recent events or the flow of society.

There are parts of his life and personality that are extremely messy, and that's the truth

To truth there is no error. To life there is no death.

I do not believe in the Cinema verite. Sometimes a really good lie is better than any truth.

Within the mind there are no lies-no possibility of deceiving oneself; and yet, somehow we all manage to bypass the safety of truth in pursuit of dangerous desires.

Calculated is the truth of adulthood, whereas honest is the truth of a child.

The most dire of all of life's grueling deceptions wedge themselves in in our minds between truth and perceptions.

Nothing makes a man, or a body of men, as mad as the truth. If there is no truth in it, they laugh it off.

Truth was truth, whether I darkened my eyes to it or not.

Every thing possible to be believ'd is an image of truth.

By beauty of course I mean truth, for the one involves the other; it is only the false in art which is ugly, and it is only the ugly that is universal.

But it is not the job of truth to make us feel good. It is the job of truth to be true, and it is our job to deal with it.

ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crisis with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.

We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears!

An experience, perceptual or conceptual, must conform to reality in order to be true

Woe to him whose beliefs play fast and loose with the order which realities follow in his experience; they will lead him nowhere or else make false connections

'What would be better for us to believe!' This sounds very like a definition of truth