Quotes About Illusion

You are speakin' low like me," he answered. "But we have no dream we can wake from

These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper.

The public appears disposed to be amused even when they are conscious of being deceived.

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.

If every word introduces a new concept, the simple phrase "all that which does not exist" is sufficient to make everything that does not exist, exist.

It is entirely possible that you will feel attachment to or aversion for certain sense objects. Give that up. When you feel attachment towards something attractive or aversion towards something repulsive, understand that to be your mind's delusion, nothing but a magical illusion.

The Great Perfection I learned from my naturally aware mind. I have realized that all phenomena are like dreams, like magic.

There is no doubt that Einstein's pipe was his closest associate, while others--including wife and family--were never permitted the illusion that they would ever be at the center of his life.

After a visit to the beach, it's hard to believe that we live in a material world.

Who'll be Prince Charming?" Maddy wanted to know. "Nigel or Jeremy? I must say neither of them is a very good example of that title!

If you think you're going to play an angel you're greatly mistaken,

It was easy to denounce that American vision of endless space and well-being and leisure as a deception; to accuse it of obscuring the inner cities and drugs and violence, and the ruthless suppression of remote and near enemies. But to people from tormented societies, America was the country whose nation-building traumas seemed to lie in the remote past, and where many individuals could afford to look beyond the struggles for food, shelter and security that still weighed upon people elsewhere.

Women's regular bleeding engenders phantoms.

heart's darkness or its light, the closer we get to the ultimate mystery of God. But our culture wants to turn mysteries into puzzles to be explained or problems to be solved, because maintaining the illusion that we can "straighten things out" makes us feel powerful. Yet mysteries never yield to solutions or fixes-and when we pretend that they do, life becomes not only more banal but also more hopeless, because the fixes never work.

Wherefore all these things are but the names which mortals have given, believing them to be true

?i vai, biet plugar pe p?mânturile ei roz È™i roditoare, nu m? în?lÈ›am niciodat? la nivelul delirului ei.

Avec l'argent, nul n'est à l'aise : ceux qui croient le détester l'idolâtrent en secret. Ceux qui l'idolâtrent le surestiment. Ceux qui feignent de le mépriser se mentent à eux-mêmes. Engouement

The great times were never as great as they seem in the rearview mirror.

Pretty soon it would all be happening at the speed of thought, before it could actually happen, so that nothing would ever have to happen again. You'd only think things had happened, and if anything ever did happen, you wouldn't know the difference.

Pushing herself up to a sitting position, she rubbed the side of her face and then blinked at what seemed to be a solid Avail of business suits. She looked up. 'Mount Rushmore,' she said. 'Little far west of home for this time of year?' The

It's easier to dismiss ghosts in the daylight.