Quotes About Illusion

A man thought he could fly, so he jumped off the top of a ten-story building, and as he fell past the fifth floor, flapping his arms uselessly in the air, he was heard to say: 'So far, so good.

political parties representing rival bourgeois factions create the illusion of choice but unite to repress the working class.

He was the richest man in the world, yet he was always broke.

to stay, and lull them into a false sense of security. He

The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it.

People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.

Like a cartoon world, where the figures are flat and outlined in black, jerking through some kind of goofy story that might be real funny if it weren't for the cartoon figures being real guys...

It's the truth, even if it didn't happen... ...if they don't exist, how can a man see them?

My friend, that, as anyone can see, is not a hotel; it's a depot.

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Besides, there are some things that can't be the truth even if they did happen.

The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it. I

Now I don't know what I love any more. I don't know where the thing I make-pretend leaves off and the thing that's really there starts up.

But if they don't exist, how can a man see them?

If they don't exist, how can a man see them?

Besides there are somethings that can't be the truth even if they did happen.

This kept happening, off and on. It'd be bright for a little bit, everything shining like chrome, waxy-looking, polished, then go dark as muddy water.

Thus, to see all memory as present experience is to collapse the boundaries of this present moment, to free it of illusory limits, to deliver it from the opposites of past vs. future. It becomes obvious that there is nothing behind you in time nor before you in time. You thus have nowhere to stand but in the timeless present, and thus nowhere to stand but in eternity.

Even science itself was held to be no more true than poetry. (Seriously.) There simply was no difference between fact and fiction, news and novels, data and fantasies. In short, there was "no truth" anywhere.

The power of the visible is the invisible.

The superstition in which we grew up, Though we may recognize it, does not lose Its power over us.-Not all are free Who make mock of their chains.

The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary

Power comes and goes. It can vanish in the twinkling of an eye, like smoke dissolving in the air.

Power resides only where men believe it resides. [...] A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.