Leslie Morgan Steiner Quotes

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality.

Words, as is well known, are the greatest foes of reality.

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.

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

Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.

The only difference between a wise man and a fool is that the wise man knows he's playing.

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

When we consider reality itself we quickly become aware of its infinite complexity, and we realize that our habitual perception of it is often inadequate. If this were not so, the concept of deception would be meaningless.

The secret is that there is no secret.

The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.

Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!

I think that, like anything, people take their image and what they want somebody else to be and then people just run with it. And when you really know the person and really love the person, you recognize that that person is nothing like that.

Names are not always what they seem.

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

Reality has actually very little to do with truth; there is no necessary connection between the two.

I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message.

Inside each of us resides the truth, I began, the absolute truth. But sometimes the truth is hidden in a hall of mirrors. Sometimes we believe we are viewing the real thing, when in fact we are viewing a facsimile, a distortion.

As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live.

A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber.

You can't drop concepts. You can only shine a little flashlight on them as you do inquiry, an you see that what you thought was true wasn't. And when the truth is seen, there's nothing you can do to make the lie true for you again.

Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.

Comes a Time when the blind man takes your hand says DON'T YOU SEE?

Your mind and a computer have one thing in common: neither of them know the difference between the truth... and what you tell it.

There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.