William Booth Quotes

The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for dramatic effect. The theater is unnatural, a place of imagination. But the theater tells the audience something true: that the world requires judgments.

I realize that nothing's as it seems.

Belief and seeing: They are both often wrong.

Appearances do not deceive if there are enough of them.

Always scorn appearances and you always may.

Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.

In Shakespeare's world, characters cannot trust their senses. Is the ghost in Hamlet true and truthful, or is it a demon, tempting young Hamlet into murderous sin? Is Juliet dead or merely sleeping? Does Lear really stand at the edge of a great cliff? Or has the Fool deceived him to save his life?

Seeing is not always believing.

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.

They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

A hair divides what is false and true.

One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

It is faith that moves mountains, because it gives the illusion that mountains move …. Illusion is perhaps the only reality in life.

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

Everything you see is not always real.

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

Things are not always as they seem.

They who imagine truth in untruth and see untruth in truth will never arrive at the truth.

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

Life is not always what we think it is.

Which country is real, mine or the teacher's? My wish is that we might progressively lose our confidence in what we think we believe and the things we consider stable and secure, in order to remind ourselves of the infinite number of things still waiting to be discovered.