Quotes About Illusion

Art is a lie that makes us realise truth ... that is given us to understand.

Truth will flourish in fantasy, only to wither and die in what you are pleased to call reality.

A sweet lie is more gracious for us than a virulent but real truth.

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

The most familiar precepts are not always the truest.

The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth,--that is the secret of the fine arts.

It is owing to our limitations that a thing appears to us as single and separate when in truth it is not a separate thing at all.

A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true.

All truth is very ordinary. It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary.

But what's real? You can't find the truth. You just pick the lie you like best. As long as you know that everything's a lie, you can't hurt yourself.

Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.

Till the false is seen as the false, truth is not.

A photo is always a kind of lie. Truth is only present for a matter of a fraction of a second.

Truth is merely common sense, say the naive realist. Really? Then where, precisely, is the location of--a rainbow? In the air? In the eye? In between? Or somewhere else?

This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.

We both know that, my friend, but a man's perception soon becomes his reality.

Language can be very adept at hiding the truth.

What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

I tried to put a bird in a cage. O fool that I am! For the bird was Truth. Sing merrily, Truth: I tried to put Truth in a cage!

There are some lies that, under the right circumstances, are the only truth

I have been saying and writing for so many years that one sentence can encapsulate the totality of life, of existence, of being: Infinite love is the only truth-everything else is Illusion.