Quotes About Illusion

Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.

Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.

In a world that has REALLY been turned on its head, truth is a moment of falsehood.

Truth is a torch which gleams in the fog but does not dispel it.

Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.

They who imagine truth in untruth and see untruth in truth will never arrive at the truth.

Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.

Never let reality get in the way of truth

It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.

Words are not truth. Truth is like the moon, and words are like my finger. I can point to the moon with my finger, but my finger is not the moon. Do you need my finger to see the moon?

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

The seeing of Truth cannot be dualistic (a 'thing' seen). It cannot be seen by a see-er, or via a see-er. There can only be a seeing which itself is Truth.

Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.

There is someone who looks after us from behind the curtain. In truth we are not here, this is our shadow.

To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.

Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.

Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true .

The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth--it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.

How can anybody be enlightened? Truth is after all so poorly lit

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.

The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.

A joke is a good camouflage. Next best comes sentiment... But the best camouflage of all - in my opinion - is the plain and simple truth. Because nobody ever believes it.

Lies circle the earth while Truth is still trying to put on its shoes.