Neil Gaiman Quotes

The first lesson about trusting your senses is: don't. Just because you believe something to be true, just because you know it's true, that doesn't mean it is true.

Every man feels that perception gives him an invincible belief of the existence of that which he perceives; and that this belief is not the effect of reasoning, but the immediate consequence of perception. When philosophers have wearied themselves and their readers with their speculations upon this subject, they can neither strengthen this belief, nor weaken it; nor can they shew how it is produced. It puts the philosopher and the peasant upon a level; and neither of them can give any other reason for believing his senses, than that he finds it impossible for him to do otherwise.

I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.

Nothing in this world is real

Nothing is real.

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

Who does understand life?

Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.

Doubt is not an agreeable condition, but certainty is an absurd one.

Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down".

How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.

The heart lies and the head plays tricks on us, but the eyes see true. Look with your eyes. Hear with your ears. Taste with your mouth. Smell with your nose. Feel with your skin. Then comes the thinking, afterward, and in a way knowing the truth.

I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain.

Whatever I have up till now accepted as most true and assured I have gotten either from the senses or through the senses. But from time to time I have found that the senses deceive, and it is prudent never to trust completely those who have deceived us even once.

A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!

Here then is the truth about the Truth; the Truth is not bridge, sturdy to every step, a marvel of bound planks and supports from the known into the unknown, but a surging sea of smashed wood, flotsam and drowning sailors.

To hear is to doubt, to see is to be deceived, but to feel is to believe.

This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.

At times truth may not seem probable.

I love the way dates in a text make us think that truth will follow.

I think Pirandello had something to say to people about what truth really is.

Truth is a big concept.

Man is the measure of all things.

It's not that I don't believe in miracles, but I never quite trust that they're real.