F. Paul Wilson Quotes

If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not.

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

Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!

We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.

If y'can't see with yore own two eyes what's in front of them, then y'better off closin' 'em an' goin' t'sleep, 'tis far more restful! —Gerul

That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.

We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

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

People take reality for granted.

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.

How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.

When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know.

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.

I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

We have a never sated appetite for self deception.

When we lack the will to see things as they really are, there is nothing so mystifying as the obvious.

We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.

The trouble with illusions is that you aren't aware you have any until they are taken away from you.

I think - I think - I think how little they think what lies so near them.

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.

It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.

I have gone around observing your activities from the outside. Because of this I have also been able to see things to which you have been blind... Every morning you have gone to work, but you have never been fully awake. Of course, you have seen the sun and the moon, the stars in the sky, and everything that moves, but you haven't really seen it at all. It is different for the Joker, because he was put into this world with a flaw: He sees too clearly and too much.

[L]et my reader who is puzzled by my awkward explanations close his eyes for no more than two minutes, and see if he does not find himself suddenly not a compact human being at all, but only a consciousness on a sea of sound and touch . . .