Ang Lee Quotes

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

That which is cannot be true.

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

And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.

One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.

We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.

The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.

Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.

...it's just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is.

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

Everything is illusion. Even that last sentence.

When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.

The truth is still the truth whether or not you believe it. Can we say the same about lies? No, lies only exist because we believe them. If we don't believe in lies, they simply disappear.

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.

Truth is a necessary phantom.

A thing either is what it appears to be; or it is not, but yet appears to be; or it is, but does not appear to be; or it is not, and does not appear to be.

Nothing in this world is real

If you search for truthfulness, you might as well be blind.

Realism is a corruption of reality.

If differences can be hidden, perhaps they aren't differences at all.

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.

I always mistrust everything I see, which an image shows me, because I imagine what is beyond it. And what is beyond an image cannot be known.

It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.

What people believe prevails over the truth.

Truth wasn't something you went out and found. It was wide and vast and deep and unending, and all you could hope to see was a tiny part of it. And to see that part and to mistake it for the whole was to make of Truth a lie.