Quotes About Illusion

You see your preconceived ideas and your thoughts—not the reality.

We often feel proud of our knowledge even when it is filled with emptiness.

Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

What a splendid head, yet no brain.

But bear in mind your lover's wage Is what your looking-glass can show, And that he will turn green with rage At all that is not pictured there.

I like the sound of 'claps of no sound..

Life is mostly froth and bubble

BAIT, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is beauty.

The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.

You can only be afraid of what you think you know.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.

Vivir en el engaño o ser engañado es fácil'

Los dormidos, y los muertos, no son sino como pinturas', dijo nuestro Shakespeare, y yo a veces pienso que las personas todas son sólo eso, como pinturas, dormidos presentes y futuros muertos.

es lo que el pánico hace y lo que suele llevar a la perdición a quienes lo padecen: les hace creer que, dentro del mal o el peligro, en él están sin embargo a salvo.

A paz, infelizmente, é sempre apenas aparente, e transitória, um fingimento.

Querida hermana: suponéis que Brasil es un trono de oro, pero es un yugo de hierro.»

Al principio eran ninfas de blancos brazos y turgentes pechos que seducían a los hombres; pero luego, cuando cundió la voz y los jóvenes ya no eran tan incautos de dejarse dominar por la lujuria, las náyades se mostraban en su verdadera forma, y de las aguas surgían largos brazos cubiertos de escamas verdes que arrastraban a sus presas a las honduras de los ríos y los estanques para ahogarlos.

Veo las cosas tal como son. Hace muchos años que renuncié a la fantasía. No he olvidado nunca que un exceso de imaginación puede conducir a los hombres a la locura.

And yet fear builds its phantoms which are more fearsome than reality itself, and reality, when calmly analysed and its consequences willingly accepted, loses much of its terror.

Fear builds its phantoms which are more fearsome than fear itself

could almost hear piped-in

Our everyday reality is a grand illusion which we are creating. By exploring and changing our inner world, we begin to transform our outer world. If we are willing to embark on an inner journey, we can discover all of the beliefs, expectations, and hidden agendas through which we create our own lives, and collectively, we can begin to shape the future in ways that honor the sacredness of all life.

Listen to that--just listen to that. It puffs, it pants, it wheezes, it yanks its damn carcass up step by step--who'd ever believe that on stage it's a young girl.