Werner Herzog Illumination Quotations

Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.

I'm trying to find these rare moments where you feel completely illuminated. Facts never illuminate you. The phone directory of Manhattan doesn't illuminate you, although it has factually correct entries, millions of them. But these rare moments of illumination that you find when you read a great poem, you instantly know. You instantly feel this spark of illumination. You are almost stepping outside of yourself and you see something sublime.

Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.