Quotes About Illusion

The world is a dangerous place (...) There will always be blurred boundaries. There are plenty of good bad guys and bad good guys. Life's not clear and it's seldom fair (...) I don't want our child growing up under the illusion that it is. Shit happens.

glittery illusion where, like the facelifts of fading stars, nothing was permanent.

Folks called this city Tinseltown because so much here was a glittery illusion where, like the facelifts of fading stars, nothing was permanent.

As the ancient Gnostics patiently explained almost two thousand years ago, there is no greater trap than to believe one has arrived at "the completion of all completions"—when in reality one hasn't even arrived yet at the very first mystery of existence behind which all the other mysteries after mysteries lie. Then even liberation traps us in its net, thanks to the elegance and grace and speed with which we are caught by what we're sure has set us free.

Tiene mérito: hemos conseguido crear la ilusión de que somos más sabios que las gentes de tiempos anteriores

We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.

He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.

Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.

A rich manís wealth is his fortified city; it is like a high wall in his imagination.

They say to the seers, “Stop seeing visions!” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us the truth! Speak to us pleasant words; prophesy illusions.

Like cages full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become powerful and rich.

For idols speak deceit and diviners see illusions; they tell false dreams and offer empty comfort. Therefore the people wander like sheep, oppressed for lack of a shepherd.