Julian Assange Quotes

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.

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

Did you ever think that maybe what you see isn't really what's true?

You want the truth, of course. You want me to put two and two together. But two and two doesn’t necessarily get you the truth. Two and two equals a voice outside the window. Two and two equals the wind. The living bird is not its labeled bones.

Nothing in this world is real

Nothing is real.

Seeing is not always believing.

I realize that nothing's as it seems.

You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past.

The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things.

Belief and seeing: They are both often wrong.

Let me tell you the truth. The truth is what is, and what should be is a fantasy. A terrible, terrible lie that someone gave to the people long ago.

It is not easy to distinguish reality from illusion, especially when one lives in a period of the great upheaval.

I often tend to think that things are not what they seem.

Truth is an illusory notion.

There's so many different types of illusions; our lives are an illusion in a sense.

The truth often does sound unconvincing.

Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.

You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.

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

Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down".

Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true .

The truths that seem most truthful, if you look at them from all sides, if you look at them close up, turn out to be either half truths or lies.

Things are not at all what they seem to be: oh no, not at all.