Tariq Ali Quotes

The world is a lie...not you and me.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Truth is always a delusion.

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

Illusions are hazardous, and so are disillusions.

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

I realize that nothing's as it seems.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality.

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

Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.

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.

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

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Perception's not reality.

Perception is not always reality.

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.

The world being illusive, one must be deluded in some way if one is to triumph in it.

Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.

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

I am who I am, you are who you are, and everything else is a perception based on acceptance, deception, smoke, mirrors, and so on. It's what's between us that seems to justify our accidental identities.

People like what is not true and they don't like what is true.

Did you ever think that maybe what you see isn't really what's true?

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.

Generally, a lot of the things people think are made up are real, a lot of the things people think are real are made up, a lot of the things people think are spontaneous are cleverly faked, and a lot of the things people think are fake are spontaneous.