Victoria Aveyard Quotes

Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of; just as we call "money" not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.

Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of ministers and gods of cat's meat men.

Reality has actually very little to do with truth; there is no necessary connection between the two.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

As pitilessly as force annihilates, equally without pity … intoxicates those who possess or believe they possess it. In reality, no one possesses it.

Truth I have no trouble with, it's the facts I get all screwed up.

The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.

Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions.

Reality can easily become the current fantasy.

They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?

You imagine the carefully pruned, shaped thing that is presented to you is truth. That is just what it isn't. The truth is improbable, the truth is fantastic; it's in what you think is a distorting mirror that you see the truth.

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.

Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be.

If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.

The role of the scholar is to destroy chimeras, that of the statesman is to make use of them.

Perception is real even when it is not reality.

All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.

You can't really pretend something is rosier than it is and expect people to buy it.

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

We can all be conned but at what point do we realize that we're being conned and to what point do we allow ourselves to be conned?