Teller Quotes

They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?

Of the Surface of Things In my room, the world is beyond my understanding; But when I walk I see that it consists of three or four Hills and a cloud.

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

Sometimes what we see, what's going on in front of us, isn't really what's happening.

We are led to believe a lie When we see not through the eye.

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.

If we knew the truth, we'd see it; all else is system and outskirts.

Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.

Watt's concern, deep as it appeared, was not after all what the figure was, in reality, but with what the figure appeared to be, in reality.

How can mirrors be real if our eyes aren't real?

To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.

La ve rite , comme la lumie' re, aveugle. Le mensonge, au contraire, est un beau cre puscule qui met chaque objet en valeur. Truth, like light, blinds. A lie, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight which shows the value of each object.

Reality is modest, it won't be seen naked.

Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.

The reality is the picture, it is most certainly not in the picture.

Perception of a state is not the state.

When we consider reality itself we quickly become aware of its infinite complexity, and we realize that our habitual perception of it is often inadequate. If this were not so, the concept of deception would be meaningless.

Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them... there is nothing.

What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.

Nothing in nature is as simple as it sometimes seems when reduced to words.

You want the truth, of course. You want me to put two and two together. But two and two doesn’t necessarily get you the truth. Two and two equals a voice outside the window. Two and two equals the wind. The living bird is not its labeled bones.

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.

That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.

There is a mask of theory over the whole face of nature.

You think the world is what it looks like in fine weather at noon day; I think it is what it seems like in the early morning when one first wakes from deep sleep.