Quotes About Illusion

Believe me, Athelstan, you can wrap a dog's turd in a cloth of gold but it remains a dog's turd.

In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.

Life is Magic....whether we realize it or not

Whatever discoveries have been made in the land of self-delusion, many undiscovered regions remain to be explored.

Don't think of it as a lie, think of it as the truth under imaginary circumstances.

This is an age of superstition and wishful thinking. The sky is full of evening's empires, and every one of them is founded on sand.

After all, ... your eyes only see what your mind lets you believe.

The criticism of religion disillusions man, so that he will think, act, and fashion his reality like a man who has discarded his illusions and regained his senses, so that he will move around himself as his own true Sun. Religion is only the illusory Sun which revolves around man as long as he does not revolve around himself.

And that's just the beginning. More and more, conventional wisdom says that the responsible thing is to make the unemployed suffer. And while the benefits from inflicting pain are an illusion, the pain itself will be all too real.

We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,— This debt we pay to human guile; With torn and bleeding hearts we smile

What dreams we have and how they fly Like rosy clouds across the sky; Of wealth, of fame, of sure success, Of love that comes to cheer and bless; And how they whither, how they fade, The waning wealth, the jilting jade — The fame that for a moment gleams, Then flies forever, — dreams, ah — dreams!

A shark without teeth is just a mermaid.

You can pour syrup on a turd, but that don't make it a pancake.

A shark that can't bite is nothing but a mermaid.

Man is never so foolish as when he fools himself.

Wetiko doesn't objectively exist, and yet, at the same time, it is not merely our projection or imagination. Instead of an either/or universe, where phenomena like wetiko are either real or unreal, there is an area in between in which it is both/and--both real and unreal at the same time.

I don't get superheroes," she says, "if you could see through everything you'd see nothing at all.

pareidolia. They heard whispering voices in the radio pulses of Jupiter or Saturn.

Nothing recedes into the vanishing point of time's rear-view faster than the truth.

Pick up the world and turn it over, as Mama liked to say, and you won't find fair written anywhere on it.

It was nice of her to want to believe the best about me. People tend to do that with the strangers they're fucking. If she wanted to think that apathy and independence were the same thing, good for her. Maybe she was right.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. observed of most white people in the nation: "They believe that American society is essentially hospitable to fair play and to steady growth toward a middle-class Utopia embodying racial harmony. But unfortunately, this is a fantasy of self-deception and comfortable vanity.

Everything that is not as it appears, I think it is from your country.

I began to fear that constant hoping might cause me to sacrifice today for the illusion of a better tomorrow." - The Last Self-Help Book You'll Ever Need