Quotes About Illusions

Man lives in illusions in the comedy matrix of his absurd vices and paradoxical instincts.

The body is a cocoon of illusions. Instincts are marketing manipulations on which they play as a musical instrument of egoism. From death, it crumbles revealing the soul, awareness and the third eye.

The human world is the result of a sick imagination of illusions, consisting of fear and despair.

We endure a whole storm of illusions within ourselves. A storm born of fear and despair. Like an explosion leading into hyperspace where hundreds of millions of fear scenarios are played. It's like cinema, and you are a screenwriter who endures it as if wears virtual glasses.

All your problems are just illusions that will pass without a trace.

Now is the time to take the key of all illusions in your hands and achieve pure happiness in life.

Reconcile with your heart and mind then allow your soul to penetrate through the veil of all illusions.

When a worldview fails to account for all of reality, what do adherents do? Do they say, "I guess my theory has been falsified; I'd better toss it out"? Most people do not give up that easily. Instead they suppress the things that their worldview cannot explain, walling them off into a conceptual area separate from reality—an upper story of useful fictions. Wish fulfillment. Illusions.

La vita non è fatta solo di doveri, di nobili sogni. È fatta anche di piaceri. E il solo compenso per l'assenza di certi piaceri è illuderci d'avere una missione.

Most people live with pleasant illusions, but leaders must deal with hard realities.

The philosopher Marar writes, "As our hearts can't stop pumping blood, so our minds can't stop pumping illusions.

Spirituality is not primarily about values and ethics, not about exhortations to do right or live well. The spiritual traditions are primarily about reality...an effort to penetrate the illusions of the external world and to name its underlying truth.

Their eyes had seen so much that they no longer distinguished between dream and reality. And they had so few illusions they were through asking questions of anyone, even of themselves.

It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts... For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it

Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts.

it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts.

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

He had already incapacitated me, harried me, cut away most of my illusions and some of my ignorance; he had already so weakened me that I was falling back on myths, words, mysteries to replace what I had lost.