Perception Deception Quotes

The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.

I was fascinated with optical illusions.

I am in the Matrix and I just took the blue pill.

The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish the context of no-context and to chronicle it.

I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes... in a total misapprehension of character at some point or other: fancying people so much more gay or grave, or ingenious or stupid than they really are, and I can hardly tell why, or in what the deception originated. Sometimes one is guided by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.

The leprosy of unreality disfigured every human creature in attendance.

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

The brain can be hoodwinked but not the stomach.