Talib Kweli Quotes

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

We're all living in some state of illusion, even if modestly.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

It does no good to believe in what does not exist to the point one cannot focus on what is real. That would be the greatest tragedy of any 'conspiracy.'

Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!

The thing is too that when you sell people a false reality and they take that to be the norm, when that false reality is light-years from what’s really happening, that in itself is a tremendous defense mechanism because when you start talking about what is actually happening, it is so different from what people perceive to be happening. They just can’t make that jump; it’s too insane for them.

It is only that my illusion is more real to me than reality. And so do we often build our world on an error, and cry out that the universe is falling to pieces, if any one but lift a finger to replace the error by truth.

Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

If you keep saying two plus two equals five over and over again, then that is what people are going to think. Maybe it does equal five if we keep changing the definition of what's normal and what's right and what's wrong.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.

No one who lives in error is free.

You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it's not that way at all, it's something else.

The people wish to be deceived; let them be deceived.

Every generation lives with illusions.

The majority of men prefer delusion to truth. It soothes. It is easy to grasp. Above all, it fits more snugly than the truth into a universe of false appearances—of complex and irrational phenomena, defectively grasped.

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.

It is not easy to distinguish reality from illusion, especially when one lives in a period of the great upheaval.

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

There are only two types of people in the world. There are the people who understand that this is a matrix, and then there are the people who buy it lock, stock and barrel.

Reason is the illusion of reality

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

What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?