Quotes About Illusion

Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.

Insanity is believing your hallucinations are real. Religion is believing that other peoples' hallucinations are real.

Who says God has created this world? We have created it by our own imagination.

The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such.

We all behave as though what we think is true, is true.

Priests and conjurors are of the same trade.

If people are foolish, they are bound to mix the personality and the Truth, and to build a temple around the personality and form a religion.

What excellent fools religion makes of men.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

When we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things.

There are no truths outside the Gates of Eden.

It's the old shell game.

The devil makes a great deal of the religion we see.

Most people we observe who practice self-discovery just get caught up in a new description, a new "ism", a new religion, a new god. But nothing changes.

Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious but who understands the non-existent.

Religion is not what appears. It's what guides the appearance. There is an appearance of everything. But the appearance doesn't always have something behind it.

Miracles' rely on their observer's ignorance. 'Perfection' relies on the observer's failure to notice the observed's defects.

The devil is the most stubborn verisimilitude on earth!

You can't burn down a made-up place.

When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?

Any titles, money, or privilege you inherit are actually hindrances. They delude you into believing you are owed respect.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.

While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.

We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would wish them to be.