Stefan Molyneux Quotes

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

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.

I feel that one of the most important lessons that can be learned is that what we "see" may be different than what is actually in front of us.

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

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.

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

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.

Don't take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.

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.

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

The best mind-altering drug is the truth.

I realize that nothing's as it seems.

Image is what people perceive my life to be. It's nothing like the truth.

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

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?

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

Belief and seeing: They are both often wrong.

Let me tell you the truth. The truth is what is, and what should be is a fantasy. A terrible, terrible lie that someone gave to the people long ago.

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

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

You have to keep your mind as wide-open as your eyes, because almost nothing is what it seems.