Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

Reason is the illusion of reality

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

Perception is not always reality.

There are only two types of people in the world. There are the people who understand that this is a matrix, and then there are the people who buy it lock, stock and barrel.

The world being illusive, one must be deluded in some way if one is to triumph in it.

Perception was easily accomplished, required little effort, and it never had to stand the test of reality.

Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.

If nothing is the way it seems, then this life is just a haunted dream.

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.

People think that they see, but they don't.

Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find the truth.

A thing is never seen as it really is.

Funny how people don't really see each other. Men and women. They invent each other in their minds and then they see what they invent.They don't really see each other. Now she was in love with him and she didn't even know his real name, didn't know anything real about him.

Things are not what they seem.

All you know is what you think you know, but that isn't always what's real.

The difference between him and the other boys at such a time was that they knew it was make-believe, while to hime make-believe and true were exactly the same thing. This sometimes troubled them, as when they had to make-believe that they had had their dinners.

The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deception.

Only a Californian would have observed that it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell the real fake from the fake fake.

Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic.

Who’s to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a nation? How can one group of people look at the world and see one thing, and another see something completely different? One sees a town, another sees a desert. One sees beauty, another sees chaos.” The skin of this world,” he said quietly.

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.

[...] the inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race [...]

All is but illusion and disaster.

We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist and to be blind to the great lessons that are right there before our eyes.