Henry David Thoreau Quotes

To philosophize with open eyes is to philosophize in the dark. Only the blind can look straight at the sun.

It is sure to be dark if you shut your eyes.

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark.

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

Reality is the scary thing. Not my work, not comedy.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would.

The truth often sounds paradoxical.

Life is never what it seems - and that’s the great thing about it

Things are always different from what they might be.

In order to survive, we cling to all we know and understand. And label it reality. But knowledge and understanding are ambiguous. That reality could be an illusion. All humans live with the wrong assumptions. Isn't that another way of looking at it? That sharingan how much can you really se?

We believe what we see.’...What do you do when you’re in the dark?

I don't think things are ever exactly the way one expects, and I don't think things are ever the way one assumes they are at the moment. What I actually think is that one has no idea of what things are like, ever.

Things are not what they appear to be: nor are they otherwise.

What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.

Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true .

Please remember: things are not what they seem.

Nothing but what astonishes is true.

Things don't always look as they seem.

Let the ugly light of the world in, we are no longer blind.

La ve rite , comme la lumie' re, aveugle. Le mensonge, au contraire, est un beau cre puscule qui met chaque objet en valeur. Truth, like light, blinds. A lie, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight which shows the value of each object.

Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.

Artists of all disciplines must be willing to go into the dark, let go control, be surprised.

The truth is always an abyss.