Quotes About Illusion

We are better deceived by having some truth told us than none.

So sophisticated and smart, but our eyes tell us lies, or at best the truth in part.

The truth is what I make it. I could set this world on fire and call it rain.

Reality is not what it used to be.

People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.

I try to use fiction in order to reduce the potentiality of something being true. We produce our own memories so I'm not sure of truth.

Depiction can override truth the same way that memory can override experience.

Everything was believed except the truth.

Once an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be.

People would rather be deceived than have the truth cause them anxiety

Beauty can only fight the truth for so long.

People will believe thousands of different lies in succession rather than confront a single scintilla of truth.

The more you act the further you get away from the truth.

Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible.

Fiction is the microscope of truth.

jokes are used to hide the truth!

Film is truth 24 times a second, and every cut is a lie.

I got a feeling your statements are true but all they add up to is one big lie.

The way we see the world is not actually the world in itself. What we see is our idea of it. The truth is, we have no notion of what the world is other than through the veils of our perception.

It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies.

It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth.

John Lennon, Beatles Lyrics

Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end.

but even the facts do not always tell the truth