Quotes About Illusion

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.

The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.

When a movie like 'Superbad' or 'Moneyball' comes out, people make you feel like you're the most important person on the planet. The truth is, you're a billion percent not the most important person on the planet. It's all insulated in your world and no one could care less. It's just a movie.

Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.

In Shakespeare's world, characters cannot trust their senses. Is the ghost in Hamlet true and truthful, or is it a demon, tempting young Hamlet into murderous sin? Is Juliet dead or merely sleeping? Does Lear really stand at the edge of a great cliff? Or has the Fool deceived him to save his life?

Theatre is liberating because it only works if it's truthful - that's what it requires. That's not true of film: the camera does lie.

People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.

People believe what they want to believe.

What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.

The world wants to be deceived.

It's not about fooling somebody, it's actually giving somebody a measure of their own belief: how much you want to be fooled. That's why we pay to go to magic shows and things like that.

A friend of mine said Winn-Dixie is the way that people want the world to be and Tiger Rising is the way that it is.

Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.

The world wants to be cheated. So cheat.

the best lies to tell are the ones people want to believe