Quotes About Illusion

People think that this political revolution or that social reform will make them happy, but their biochemistry tricks them time and again.

zipper's operation. Most people had no idea.2 This is what Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach have termed "the knowledge illusion." We think we know a lot, even though individually we know very little, because we treat knowledge in the minds of others as if it were our own.

Bereitwillig glaubten die Menschen an Engel und Elfen, aber dass ein winziger Floh oder ein einziger Tropfen Wasser eine ganze Armada tödlicher Jäger enthielt, konnten sie sich nicht vorstellen.

Así es como se desarrolla la historia. La gente teje una red de sentido, cree en ella con todo su corazón, pero más pronto o más tarde la red se desenmaraña, y cuando miramos atrás, no podemos entender cómo nadie pudo haberla tomado en serio.

It's relatively easy to agree that only Homo sapiens can speak about things that don't really exist, and believe six impossible things before breakfast. You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven. But why is it important? After all, fiction can be dangerously misleading or distracting.

Even Russia nowadays pretends to be a democracy. Victory

Unlike lying, an imagined reality is something that everyone believes in, and as long as this communal belief persists, the imagined reality exerts force in the world.

they make a desert and call it peace'.

Celle qui ruine l'etre, la beaute . . .

The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.

the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.

Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.

Deep down we've never been who we think we once were, and we only remember what never happened.

Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.

Any individual entity that presumes to understand the rules that guide this space is under an illusion.

The left-hand path adept seeks to liberate him/herself from passive subjection to the illusory nature of Maya, thus freeing the consciousness from the binds of self-created delusion.

Beauty and horror, pleasure and pain, joy and sorrow are perceived as interwoven strands in the tapestry of maya.

After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. You can't go backwards and regain your ignorance; you have to move forward.

She felt the essence of herself pulled finer and smaller like those streams of spun glass that pull and stretch till there remains but a glimmering illusion. Neither falling nor breaking, the stream spins finer. She felt herself very small and ecstatic. Alabama was in love.

I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.

I wish I had been what I thought I was; and so debonnaire; and so debonnaire.

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.

When you get there, there isn't any there there.

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.