Quotes About Illusion

A lot of what we're doing here deals with perception rather than truth. Many would argue that reality depends more on the former than the latter.

We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away.

Reality is what trips you up when you walk around with your eyes closed.

I had build up false pictures in my mind and sat before them. I had never had the courage to demand the truth.

The secret of theory is that truth does not exist.

That's why I always recommend a psychedelic experience because it makes you realize that all you've learned is in fact just learned and not necessarily the truth.

We suffer from the illusion that the faster we run, the more likely we are to grasp happiness. The truth is that the velocity necessary for success rarely exceeds the rate of reflection.

The bird of truth would not be able to fly if it weren't for the air of lies we breathe.

A veritable incubator of short cuts, schemes and devices to overcome the truth.

It is not in the nature of lenses to tell the whole truth. They are instruments of exaggeration and belittlement.

Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth.

Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?

Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.

Everything looked and sounded unreal. Nothing was what it is. That's what I wanted - to be alone with myself in another world where truth is untrue and life can hide from itself.

Truth may sometimes hurt, but delusion harms.

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.

Somewhere between the honest truth and the deceptive lie is the deceptive truth and the honest lie.

In all the illusions, you're the only truth that I need

Truth - An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.

The whole is the false.

Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don't know the difference. George: No, but we must carry on as though we did. Martha: Amen.

Alas, the spheres of truth are less transparent than those of illusion.

Truth is always a delusion.

On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama.