Will Muschamp Quotes

Perception and reality are two different things.

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

Perception's not reality.

Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality.

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

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

Truth is always a delusion.

Belief and seeing: They are both often wrong.

I understand the difference between perception and reality.

I like illusion when it is so convincing that we might as well see reality this way - I like to present to our belief system something that is convincing, that 'we know not to be.'

Perception was easily accomplished, required little effort, and it never had to stand the test of reality.

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

Illusions are hazardous, and so are disillusions.

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.

People say I have a distorted lens. I think I see things as they really are.

Perception is created and twisted so quickly.

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

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

What we think about Paris is a part of how we feel about it. Our idea of Paris is our idea and we don't know that that's not necessarily the way it really is. It feels so real.

It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.

It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.

It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most 'familiarity' is meditated and delusive.

I'm less interested in reality. I'm more interested in perception, the truth of the universe that we see.

If people believe something is true, then it is even if it isn't.