Quotes About Illusion

What kind of truth is it which has these mountains as its boundary and is a lie beyond them?

Humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies.

The music is not the truth.

I become an actor, a quick-change artist, as if I can trap the Prince of Truth in the act of switching a style.

All ego really is, is our opinions, which we take to be solid, real, and the absolute truth about how things are.

If there are two things Penn & Teller stand for, it's the truth & lying, although not necessarily in that order.

It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never the true reasons, the truth is always just out of reach.

In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not.

The truth may not be told. Here is an acceptable lie.

I would not know what to say to you, except this: there was never a map that got it all right, and truth and beauty were never married to one another for long.

There is no truth in photography. There is no truth about anyone's person.

Art achieves all little things by absolute truth: but all her great things need some admixture of illusion.

VERISIMILITUDE (the appearance or semblance of truth)

To claim, at a dead party, to have spotted a grackle, When in fact you haven't of late, can do no harm.

The crude real will not by itself yield truth.

And I am left behind Corrupted crushed and blind All for a dream That in truth was never really mine.

The truth is that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the stage is only a stage, and that the players are only players.

If you strive to find your Self by using your mind, you will strive and strive in vain, because the mind cannot give you the Truth. You are that Self. All else is illusion of the mind's creation.

I ain't interested in the truth. I'm interested in the way things should be.

Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I'm used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth.

Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the truth and the truth not always probable.

Jean-Luc Godard said that cinema is the truth 24 frames a second. I think cinema is lies 24 frames a second.

if you tell yourself the great lie of bad art-that you are in charge-your chance at the truth will be lost. The truth isn't always pretty.

This was the Darker Life, where every truth was written backward.