Truth Vs Illusion Quotes

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

Haven't you got any romance in your soul?" said Magrat plaintively. "No," said Granny. "I ain't. And stars don't care what you wish, and magic don't make things better, and no one doesn't get burned who sticks their hand in a fire. If you want to amount to anything as a witch, Magrat Garlick, you got to learn three things. What's real, what's not real, and what's the difference.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

It's better to live with a sad truth than with all the happy progress talk you get up here in the North.

In the long run, it is far more dangerous to adhere to illusion than to face what the actual fact is.

It is only that my illusion is more real to me than reality. And so do we often build our world on an error, and cry out that the universe is falling to pieces, if any one but lift a finger to replace the error by truth.

Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.