Quotes About Illusion

Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

People would rather believe than know.

Have you ever considered that your perception of reality could be wrong? If you haven't, this is a pretty good sign that it is.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

Don't fall for a magic wand, we humans got it all, we perform the miracles.

Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

In the realist, you have the sorry sight of the five senses deprived of their imagination.

We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.

We move from the illusion of certainty, to the certainty of illusion

I dream of eagles and bring forth sparrows.

What you see is filtered through your beliefs. You rarely see "reality." You see your version of it.

Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

Seeing is not always believing.

A penny will hide the biggest star in the universe if you hold it close enough to your eye.

And there's the fallacy of existence: the idea that one could be happy forever and age with a given situation or series of accomplishments.

Behold the power of the truth. When people see its shadow on the wall, they don't want to take the time to look away.

... fantasy is not practice for what is real—fantasy is the opiate of women.

If it hadn't been what it was, it would've been beautiful.

The world appears solid to most people. It is filled with their pain, their desires, their private ecstasies, their expectations. They are that world - nothing glows.

Your past is just that, the past, a place within your psyche with no more reality to it then the picture of a castle on a postcard is made from stone.

Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.