Mason Cooley Quotes

The world, life and human beings are only an illusion, a phantom, a dream image.

The truth is still the truth whether or not you believe it. Can we say the same about lies? No, lies only exist because we believe them. If we don't believe in lies, they simply disappear.

That which is cannot be true.

Truth is always a delusion.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That's the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That's worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth.

The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

Let me tell you the truth. The truth is what is, and what should be is a fantasy. A terrible, terrible lie that someone gave to the people long ago.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

There's so many different types of illusions; our lives are an illusion in a sense.

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.

If we knew the truth, we'd see it; all else is system and outskirts.

The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.

Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.

...it's just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is.

How can mirrors be real if our eyes aren't real?

Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.

Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them... there is nothing.

Everything is illusion. Even that last sentence.

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.

A thing either is what it appears to be; or it is not, but yet appears to be; or it is, but does not appear to be; or it is not, and does not appear to be.

Nothing in this world is real

The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.

Till the false is seen as the false, truth is not.