Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes

Illusions are hazardous, and so are disillusions.

If you're deluded, you live in a place where there isn't everyone else's reality.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

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.

Every generation lives with illusions.

Perception's not reality.

Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

A lie to me is a dream that might come true.

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.

I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, and I don't believe in appearances at all.

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.

Truth is an illusory notion.

Perception is not always reality.

What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.

Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions.

Reality can easily become the current fantasy.

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?

The problem with assumptions is that we believe they are the truth.

We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane.

If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.

One illusion is as good as another.

A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions - Durzo Blint

Reality has actually very little to do with truth; there is no necessary connection between the two.