Mary Antin Quotes

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

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

I'm less interested in reality. I'm more interested in perception, the truth of the universe that we see.

Belief and seeing: They are both often wrong.

There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.

What people believe prevails over the truth.

Perception is real even when it is not reality.

Perception is reality.

The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.

The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.

Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.

The majority of men prefer delusion to truth. It soothes. It is easy to grasp. Above all, it fits more snugly than the truth into a universe of false appearances—of complex and irrational phenomena, defectively grasped.

We're all living in some state of illusion, even if modestly.

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

Perception is not always reality.

Reason is the illusion of reality

Perception was easily accomplished, required little effort, and it never had to stand the test of reality.

All descriptions of reality are limited expressions of the world of emptiness. Yet we attach to the descriptions and think they are reality. That is a mistake.

An error becomes an error when born as truth.

Reality is irrelevant; Perception is everything.

We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality.

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

The thing is too that when you sell people a false reality and they take that to be the norm, when that false reality is light-years from what’s really happening, that in itself is a tremendous defense mechanism because when you start talking about what is actually happening, it is so different from what people perceive to be happening. They just can’t make that jump; it’s too insane for them.