Lactantius Quotes

Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most 'familiarity' is meditated and delusive.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.

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.

In short, not only are things not what they seem, they are not even what they are called!

Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.

There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish

Everything isn't exactly what it seems from the outside.

My people have been wearing green glasses on their eyes for so long that most of them think this really is an Emerald City.

Everything is an illusion; that is the whole thing about it - illusion, immitation, a mirage. It makes me too sad. Its having like a good dream, you know you are going to wake up.

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

Illusion is no longer possible, because the real is no longer possible.

Things are not what they seem.

The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real.

It is easier to deceive yourself, and to do so unperceived, than to deceive another.

Looks can be deceiving.

The world loves to be deceived.

I'm trying to convey to my audience that you really can't judge a book by its cover, and there's more to the universe than you can see with your eyes.

That which is cannot be true.

They're not even within 100 miles of Baghdad. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion... they are trying to sell to the others an illusion.

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

There is less in this than meets the eye.