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Quotes About Illusion

A joke is a joke or the image of a truth.
~ Storm Jameson
There is at least one truth to every myth, and it takes one truth to create a lie. Lies can be formed from Truth; however, Truth cannot be formed from lies.
~ Suzy Kassem
The center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth.
~ Thomas Merton
That's the question: is truth an illusion, or is illusion truth, or are they essentially the same? Myself, I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
~ Truman Capote
The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
I do not believe in the Cinema verite. Sometimes a really good lie is better than any truth.
~ Werner Herzog
The most dire of all of life's grueling deceptions wedge themselves in in our minds between truth and perceptions.
~ Wes Fesler
We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears!
~ William Faulkner
When the filter is weakened by a powerful drug, what we see is not delusion but the truth.
~ William Peter Blatty
Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
An illusion can become a half-truth, a mask can alter the expression of a face.
~ George Orwell, Why I Write
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep the truth is that they are not even shallow.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
You can only carry the illusive personality in your mind until you realize the truth behind it, but the time you realize the truth, you just cannot hold the illusive self of yours, in the mind.
~ Roshan Sharma
There is peace in knowing that whatever one thinks it is not the truth.
~ Marty Rubin
Rarely does the truth set us free. Usually it chains us to the earth like a ghost.
~ Sarah Noffke, Rebels
There is nothing called as truth, it's just your new perception
~ Harrish Sairaman
Truth is a broken mirror, but it can still help anyone to see clearly.
~ Amy Neftzger, The War of Words
There are times when the truth can only show you an illusion.
~ Lionel Suggs
The Illusion of Truth Gives Us the Delusion of Power
~ Damond Jiniya
Energy is the belief in a separation and that which creates and keeps the illusion alive.
~ Vivian Amis
Most will regret opening up the doors to truth, while others will cower at thought of living an illusion. In the end, does impracticality defeat curiosity?
~ Lionel Suggs
There are no human gods here, just hoods who think they are.
~ Fakeer Ishavardas
Pleasure can be supported by an illusion, but happiness rests upon truth.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
We do not, after all, deal in truths, only potentialities. Too much truth can be worse than death, and last longer.
~ Richard Ford, The Sportswriter