Quotes About Illusion

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

What is enquiry into the Truth? It is the firm conviction that the Self is real, and all, other than That, is unreal.

The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.

Life cannot be against you, for you are Life itself. Life can only seem to go against the ego's projections, which are rarely the truth.

Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? 'How many can say,' asks the Aztec poet, 'that there is, or is not, a truth beyond?'

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Multiplicity is only apparent, in truth, there is only one mind.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

Let me tell you the truth: The truth is what is. And what should be is a fantasy a terrible, terrible lie that someone gave the people long ago.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

Chumps prefer a beautiful lie to an ugly truth.

They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?

The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it.

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

I encounter one example after another of how relative truth is.

Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth.

Photography is truth...and cinema is truth 24 times a second.

There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.

Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams.

Sometime, somewhere you take something to be the truth. But if you cling to it too strongly, then even when the truth comes in person and knocks on your door, you will not open it.

As no two people see the world the same way, all trips from here to there are imaginary; all truth is a tale I am telling myself.

Truth ... Is a breath, a wind, A shadow, a phantom; Long have I pursued it, But never have I touched The hem of its garment.