Quotes About Illusion

There is a room in England somewhere, but it's nowhere to be seen. It exists only in the mind, and only in the mind of those that have been there.

Ideologically disciplined thinkers, especially the more gung-ho ones, often give the appearance of being critical thinkers as they go around deftly applying the official ideology and confidently reporting their judgments. The fact that professionals are usually more well-informed than nonprofessionals contributes to the illusion that they are critical thinkers.

A tree looked like it was eating somebody, but it may also have been bathing them.

Being able to separate fantasy from reality was a real bummer. I

We have built so many toxic constructs, we cannot see through the latticework. We have built so many mirrors, there are no windows to shatter.

And a soul is just a delusion that lives in the body. No delusion survives death. Death is more honest than that.

Sometimes I feel as if we live in hell and don't even realize it. The lacerations are endless. The lies we accept, the rituals we perform. All these useless acts.

What does the border look like?" A child's question. A question whose answer means nothing. There is nothing but border. There is no border.

The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what was a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?

Sometimes you get a sense of when the truth of things will not be revealed by microscopes.

But as we climbed back up, I had a moment of vertigo despite being in such an enclosed space, a kind of panic for a moment, in which the walls suddenly had a fleshy aspect to them, as if we traveled inside of the gullet of a beast.

A bird can be a bat. A bat can be a piece of floating plastic bag. Way of the world. To see things as other things.

Many things receded into the distance behind him, seemed ridiculous or fantastical, or both. Were, at their core, unimportant.

La memoria es engañosa porque está coloreada por los acontecimientos de hoy.

La distinción entre pasado, presente y futuro es sólo una ilusión.

Luchaba entre varias memorias y la memoria de lo sucedido era la única irreal para él. De

A tormenting thought: as of a certain point, history was no longer real. Without noticing it, all mankind suddenly left reality; everything happening since then was supposedly not true; but we supposedly didn't notice. Our task would now be to find that point, and as long as we didn't have it, we would be forced to abide in our present destruction.

The business friend did not recognize the sewerman, which was not surprising as the man's face was no more than a shining turd.

They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions. (v)

We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.

In the beginning was belief, foolish belief, and faith, empty faith, and illusion, the terrible illusion. ... We believed in God, had faith in man, and lived with the illusion that in each one of us is a sacred spark from the fire of the shekinah, that each one carried in his eyes and in his soul the sign of God. This was the source—if not the cause—of all our misfortune.

It was neither German nor Jew who ruled the ghetto - it was illusion.

In the beginning there was faith—which is childish; trust—which is vain; and illusion—which is dangerous. We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark from the Shekhinah's flame; that every one of us carries in his eyes and in his soul a reflection of God's image. That was the source if not the cause of all our ordeals.

In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust, which is vain; and illusion, which is dangerous." He believed that after awhile everything would go away and everything would be fine. But he realized he was just lying to himself because everything kept getting worse.