Plautus Quotes

It is possible, even probable, to be told a truth about a place, to accept it, to know it and at the same time not to know anything about it.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

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

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?

It is possible to know the great truths without feeling the truth of them.

I am not here only so that the blind might see, but to teach those who thought they could see that they are blind

What, concretely, is Enlightenment ?" "Seeing Reality as it is," said the Master. "Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?" "Oh, no! Most people see it as they think it is." "What's the difference?" "The difference between thinking you are drowning in a stormy sea and knowing you cannot drown because there isn't any water in sight for miles around.

Illusions are the truths we live by until we know better.

People think that they see, but they don't.

There are conditions worse than being unable to see, and that is imagining one sees.

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.

Comes a Time when the blind man takes your hand says DON'T YOU SEE?

There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.

Till the false is seen as the false, truth is not.

Humans believe so many lies because we aren't aware. We ignore the truth or we just don't see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn't allow us to perceive the truth, what really is.

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

My parents wouldn't have sent me out into the world with wool over my eyes. You have to be aware, or you'll be swallowed.

We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.

Reality seems so simple. We just open our eyes and there it is. But that doesn't mean it is simple.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

He who closes his eyes sees nothing, even in the full light of day.

Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice.