Heraclitus Quotes

The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.

Truth I have no trouble with, it's the facts I get all screwed up.

Reality is modest, it won't be seen naked.

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

You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.

The world isn't what you think it is.

...a truth you don't understand is more dangerous than a lie.

Humans believe so many lies because we aren't aware. We ignore the truth or we just don't see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn't allow us to perceive the truth, what really is.

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

Reality seems so simple. We just open our eyes and there it is. But that doesn't mean it is simple.

People take reality for granted.

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

Truth is always a delusion.

The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.

How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.

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

The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

Sometimes what we see, what's going on in front of us, isn't really what's happening.

I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into something they could understand.

Facts can obscure the truth.

What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.

And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.

Perception and reality are two different things.