Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

The world is a lie...not you and me.

Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.

To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.

I'm nothing more than what you actually see, but I am also the complete opposite.

From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.

The real world is much smaller than the imaginary

Society? Can we trust us? Doubt it. We're probably not even real, as was revealed in the popular documentary The Matrix. That bloke next door? Made of pixels. Your co-workers? Pixels. You? One pixel. One measly pixel. You haven't even got shoes, for Christ's sake.

The more you think about it, the more amazing the everyday world of human beings becomes: most of it doesn't actually exist at all.

Generally, a lot of the things people think are made up are real, a lot of the things people think are real are made up, a lot of the things people think are spontaneous are cleverly faked, and a lot of the things people think are fake are spontaneous.

Things are not what they appear to be: nor are they otherwise.

The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.

But we're lost in a world of appearances now.

There are two kinds of world: the one we dream about and the real one.

It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face was a real mask so there was no mask and there was no face for there was but one dance in which there was but one mask but one true face which was the same and which was a thing without a name which changed and changed into itself over and over.

The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.

What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real.

Fantasy and reality often overlap.

Nothing in this world is real

I'm not real. I'm theatre.

Perception is real even when it is not reality.

Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.

Everything looked and sounded unreal. Nothing was what it is. That's what I wanted - to be alone with myself in another world where truth is untrue and life can hide from itself.

It is obvious that an imagined #‎ world , however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it.

Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of; just as we call "money" not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.

An illusion which is a real experience is worth having.