Leon Jouhaux Quotes

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

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

Belief and seeing: They are both often wrong.

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

Seeing is not always believing.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

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

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

I understand the difference between perception and reality.

Perception's not reality.

I feel that one of the most important lessons that can be learned is that what we "see" may be different than what is actually in front of us.

The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place.

I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.

Illusions... are simple facts, but they have been created by the mind, by the spirit, and they are one of the justifications of the new spatial configuration.

If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality.

People think that they see, but they don't.

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

Inside each of us resides the truth, I began, the absolute truth. But sometimes the truth is hidden in a hall of mirrors. Sometimes we believe we are viewing the real thing, when in fact we are viewing a facsimile, a distortion.

Humans believe so many lies because we aren't aware. We ignore the truth or we just don't see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn't allow us to perceive the truth, what really is.

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.

Characters are often revealed by the ways they misapprehend others.

In every story of solipsism, there is always a conspiracy. Why? Because there is always a background involved in every perception.