Quotes About Illusion

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

The closer to the truth, the better the lie, and the truth itself, when it can be used, is the best lie.

Don't spoil a good story by telling the truth.

You get trapped by stories. Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story than the truth.

There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth.

Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped.

On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience and Infinite love is the only truth; everything else is an illusion.

An error becomes an error when born as truth.

The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second.

The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic.

A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so small and insignificant.

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.

Don't let the facts interfere with the truth.

Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.

The worlds of Truth (love) and illusion (fear) are like parallel universes; with every thought we make a choice which one to inhabit

Truth is simple, but Illusion makes it infinitely intricate. The person is rare who possesses an insatiable longing for Truth; the rest allow Illusion to bind them ever more and more.

Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find the truth.

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

This phantom world gave you false signs But you turned from the illusion and journeyed to the land of truth.

Facts are the enemy of truth.

Religious illusion must bow to scientific truth. It is in total error about the nature of the true world. Only science is not an illusion.