Max Born Quotes

Mind is the illusion that which is not but appears, and appears so much that you think that you are the mind.

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

I always see that there's a - from a philosophical point of view - there's the appearance of things that everybody wants you to think is happening, then there's the reality underneath it.

Image is what people perceive my life to be. It's nothing like the truth.

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

The more you think about it, the more amazing the everyday world of human beings becomes: most of it doesn't actually exist at all.

Generally, a lot of the things people think are made up are real, a lot of the things people think are real are made up, a lot of the things people think are spontaneous are cleverly faked, and a lot of the things people think are fake are spontaneous.

Please remember: things are not what they seem.

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

You imagine the carefully pruned, shaped thing that is presented to you is truth. That is just what it isn't. The truth is improbable, the truth is fantastic; it's in what you think is a distorting mirror that you see the truth.

It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.

I’m not anything that you think I am.

A moving shadow means more to us than a body at rest. We are no longer taken in by a fixed grin. We know that only death has a rictus.

in politics as in life, what is known is not necessarily what is believed, what is shown is not necessarily what is seen, and what is said is not necessarily what is heard.

Don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality!

You think the shadow is the substance.

How foolish of me to believe that it would be that easy. I had confused the appearance of trees and automobiles, and people with a reality itself, and believed that a photograph of these appearances to be a photograph of it. It is a melancholy truth that I will never be able to photograph it and can only fail. I am a reflection photographing other reflections within a reflection. To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.

If they [the dead] should speak, it would be found that in matters of opinion no departed person was exactly what he had passed for in life. They would realise, deep down, that they, and whole nations along with them, are not really what they seem to be-and never can be.

The appearance is the allusion of abstraction when in fact I am in control of every aspect of that symmetry.

Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of ministers and gods of cat's meat men.

Liam learned that it was possible to appear to move forward when you were really standing still.

If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not.

The world isn't what you think it is.

Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before.

A thing either is what it appears to be; or it is not, but yet appears to be; or it is, but does not appear to be; or it is not, and does not appear to be.