Louis C. K. Quotes

Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality.

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and on the other in seeing what we believe.

Perception is not always reality.

Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?

We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.

Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

They say the camera never lies. It lies every day.

It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.

Belief and seeing: They are both often wrong.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

Perception's not reality.

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

Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.

Who’s to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a nation? How can one group of people look at the world and see one thing, and another see something completely different? One sees a town, another sees a desert. One sees beauty, another sees chaos.” The skin of this world,” he said quietly.

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

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

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.

Pretend and real are all real to a psychopath.

It's actually pretty complex, because there's two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and the other is Spider's poisoned version of what took place.

When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!

They're not even within 100 miles of Baghdad. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion... they are trying to sell to the others an illusion.

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