Alexander Pushkin Quotes

Truth is always a delusion.

Illusions are hazardous, and so are disillusions.

A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions - Durzo Blint

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.

A lie to me is a dream that might come true.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

The world is cynical and sarcastic, but that doesn't mean that that's always the truth.

It is faith that moves mountains, because it gives the illusion that mountains move …. Illusion is perhaps the only reality in life.

I feel that one of the most important lessons that can be learned is that what we "see" may be different than what is actually in front of us.

Hope clouds observation.

We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane.

An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground.

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.

Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.

I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.

Hope is the denial of reality.

Many people would rather have fine words and false hopes than the truth which is unacceptable.