Guy Debord Quotes

Human truth is always soiled with falsehood.

Pretend and real are all real to a psychopath.

Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth.

I've studied pathological liars, and anything they say, they believe, and that's one of the reasons they're so convincing, because they have no connection with the truth. It's a dead issue. It's like they're color-blind to the truth. So anything that comes out of their mouths is their reality.

Perception is created and twisted so quickly.

When you're on the side of the angels, it's easier to stretch the truth.

There is a heap of evidence to show Michael Avenatti is a liar and yet he was treated as the ultimate arbitrator of truth. How embarrassing.

We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the version of the world they really believed in.

There was no normal. There never had been. "Normal" and "natural" were the biggest lies we'd ever created.

Sometimes, fact mixed with fiction so thoroughly that, though no lies were told, it was hard to remember what was strictly true.

Everything about it was false. Right then, in that office, with the realization that no one knew the truth about my life, my thoughts about the world were shaken.

The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.

Official truth is not actual truth.

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

Truth is for tailors and shoemakers. I, on the contrary, have always held that the Lord has a penchant for masquerades.

When we stand the truth on its head we generally fail to notice that our head is not standing where it should be standing either.

Never had there been such an opportunity for the dissemination of knowledge…. But the obverse is also true. We can have thrust upon us a false picture of reality as distorting as the trick mirrors in a Coney Island funhouse.

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

If you live in bad faith, lies will appear to you like the truth.

Truth does not do as much good in the world as its imitations do harm.

Donald Trump is a master salesman. And he creates his own reality. So if he tells you, "This is a middle-class tax cut, and I, Donald Trump, won't benefit," he expects you to believe that. It doesn't matter that it's not true. It's he said it, you're supposed to believe it. And that's how he's run his entire administration. If he says it, that makes it true.

Things evidently false are not only printed, but many things of truth most falsely set forth.

The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.

Welcome to the world of bullshit, my dear. You have arrived.

Truth is simple, but Illusion makes it infinitely intricate. The person is rare who possesses an insatiable longing for Truth; the rest allow Illusion to bind them ever more and more.