Quotes About Illusion

Great claims are being made for the photograph as truth. We are showing you things, we show you the war. I say you can't actually. The camera can't.

As many truths as men. Occasionally, I glimpse a truer Truth, hiding in imperfect simulacrums of itself, but as I approach, it bestirs itself & moves deeper into the thorny swamp of dissent.

In a world that daily disconnects further from truth, more and more people accept the virtual in place of the real, and all things virtual are also malleable.

Evil men often easy to mislead, because they have spent so long deceiving that they no longer recognise the truth and mistake deseption for it.

I'm not like a real person. I love being artificial. I think there's a little magic in the fact that I'm so totally real, but look so artificial at the same time.

Which is better, truth that is a lie or the lie that is truth?

Think of my movies as heightening our awareness, not confusing the difference between truth and fiction, but heightening our awareness of how confused we can become about what is real.

If we knew the truth, we'd see it; all else is system and outskirts.

Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.

Within silence all things are contained. What appears to our eyes to be life is but a thin curtain, a gauze penumbra, which stultifies our vision, which prevents us from seeing the truth.

Everything we see is an illusion. Even our perceptions of truth are illusory, illusory in the sense they're not complete.

None of this has ever been or will ever be; all is an appearance, all is an illusion. Illusions are truth. All illusions are real. We say illusion, meaning that they're shadows.

The ultimate horror movie for a really un-illuminated being is an enlightened person. They are scared of others seeing what they are all about and what they really do. They are scared of truth.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

You go on being reincarnated until you reach the actual Truth. Heaven and Hell are just a state of mind. We are all here to become Christ-like. The actual world is an illusion.

To be boosted by an illusion is not to live better than to live in harmony with the truth ... these refusals to part with a decayed illusion are really an infection to the mind.

Nothing can be further than the truth.

the true and the plausible are rarely the same.

Truth has as many coats as an onion ... and each one of them hollow when you peel it off.

We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling.

Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true.

There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance.

If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends!

You thought I was writing The Truth? Honey, I don't even know what The Truth means.