Quotes About Illusion

The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar.

La fantasia è crudele, sia sovrappone alla realtà come carta velina.

La fantasia è crudele, si sovrappone alla realtà come carta velina.

For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are

Nu po?i s? vezi zâne dac? nu e?ti z?natic.

lead us to perceive minds where no minds exist, even in "inanimate objects.

If canines can be conditioned to salivate over nonexistent food, may not men one day be likewise taught to salivate at the prospect of nonexistent facts?

Nicholas Shakespeare

Sometimes I'll spend an hour writing a tiny email. I work on it until I've created the illusion that I've dashed it off in three minutes. If I make a typo, I let it stand. Sometimes in fact I correct the typo without thinking, and then I back up and retype the typo so that it'll look more casual. I don't know why.

all we ever see of each other is the representation we hold inside our own minds.

It doesn't look poor. The place looks

Maybe she has wasted her life dreaming about something that was never entirely real.

Why is it that looking down seems so much higher than looking up?

The ladders of life that we scale merrily Move mysteriously around So that when you think you're climbing up, man In fact you're climbing down

now I'm synthesizing personal experience with observation. As opposed to just projecting feelings on to someone you barely know or chasing some illusion. Now, I'm more into observing illusions taking their toll on other people. I feel pretty good about life these days.

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer, it just seems longer.'1

Reading about Japan in the West is often like looking at a funhouse mirror through a kaleidoscope.

At root fame is a sham. I'm not going to live forever and if I am I certainly need don't you to tell me that so that I will buy a car or a box of dried up crackers.

Rothstein worked with Park Avenue men as beards in the club-house, and with Broadway characters, such as Morris the Boob on The Lawn, and he probably bet away from the track, too.

But I'm not saying anything because I've just noticed the brick. Or rather the lack of brick. Of course, some of the dark shapes on the floor probably are bricks, but they don't look like my brick. The one that can be up against the door. But isn't.

Everything the king does is a lie.

Act as though there is nothing wrong, and you can make it true, for a while.

This one's as pretty as a grass snake, but much more dangerous.

It shines and it gleams, but is not what it seems.