Quotes About Illusion

all television news programs begin, end, and are somewhere in between punctuated with music...It is there, I assume, for the same reason music is used in theater and films - to create a mood and provide a leitmotif for the entertainment...as long as the music is there as a frame for the program, the viewer is comforted to believe that there is nothing to be greatly alarmed about; that, in fact, the events that are reported have as much relation to reality as do scenes in a play.

Those who would be gods refashion themselves into images the viewers would have them be.

Huxley grasped, as Orwell did not, that it is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions. Although Huxley did not specify that television would be our main line to the drug, he would have no difficulty accepting Robert MacNeil's observation that 'Television is the soma of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.' Big Brother turns out to be Howdy Doody.

Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice. The result is that we are a people on the verge of amusing ourselves to death.

Television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information - misplaced, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information - information that creates the illusion of knowing something, but which in fact leads one away from knowing.

We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.

In the dance of infatuation, we see others not as they are, but as projections of who we want them to be. And we impose on them all the imaginary criteria we think will fill the void in our hearts.

As soon as you start talking about mystique, you have none.

I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream

good from far but far from good as the saying goes

Niente può essere più lontano dalla verità.

The Human Being, as we imagine it, does not exist.

Meu marido gosta de se fingir de mau. Mas é só aparência. peixoto (para d. Lígia) Ã¢â'¬â€ Ah

Creo que todo cuanto la imaginación humana ha representado es verdad

The more attractive and athletic the character depicted on the T-shirt, the less attractive and athletic the fan wearing it

Man's chief delusion is his conviction that there are causes other than his own state of consciousness.

If you judge after appearances, you will continue to be enslaved by the evidence of your senses. To break this hypnotic spell of the senses you are told, "Go within and shut the door." The door of the senses must be tightly shut before your new claim can be honoured. Closing the door of the senses is not as difficult as it appears to be at first. It is done with effort.

When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn't want to see the magic.

some things, most things in my experience, are more vivid when you haven't seen them

like all male lovers he had quickly built a rose-coloured version that matched his own hope:

Que la vida no es más que una quimera; Una ilusión, un sueño sin orillas, Una pequeña nube pasajera.

Que la vida no es más que una quimera; Una ilusión, un sueño sin orillas, Una pequeña nube pasajera. Vamos

Real life is an overrated idea.

Memory is a lie, a creative act, a flimsy shield against the truth.