Quotes About Illusion

Dreams come true all the time, just not for the dreamers.

But I don't want to go among mad people," said Alice. "Oh, you can't help that," said the cat. "We're all mad here.

The Hitchhiker's Guide is a hundred percent accurate. Reality, however, is not as reliable.

Memories and movies are as real as each other to me. You, Peter Pan, the Loch Ness monster, me. It's all real. Maybe.

Magic. Garrick

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.

It is a universal law — have no illusion — that every creature alive is attached to nothing so much as to its own self-interest.

practice saying to every harsh appearance,1 You are an appearance, and in no manner what you appear to be.

Cómo se llama a los que hacen caso de cualquier apariencia? — Locos

You are but an appearance, and not absolutely the thing you appear to be.

It is a universal law – have no illusions – that every creature alive is attached to nothing so much as to its own self-interest.

Do you realize that you are awake?' 'No, any more than when I dream and have the impression that I am awake.' 'And is the one impression in no way different from the other?' 'No.

The indispensability of play-acting in the grim business of dying and killing is particularly evident in the case of armies. Their uniforms, flags, emblems, parades, music, and elaborate etiquette and ritual are designed to separate the soldier from his flesh-and-blood self and mask the overwhelming reality of life and death.

We usually see only the things we are looking for- so much so that we sometimes see them where they are not.

To the child, the savage, and the Wall Street operator everything seems possible, hence their credulity.

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

All active mass movements strive, therefore, to interpose a fact-proof screen between the faithful and the realities of the world.

the easiest thing of all is to deceive oneself, for what a man wishes, he generally believes to be true!

honesty is like seeing a crackhead up close: it ain't that fucking attractive.

Ownership, even in love, is an illusion. No woman owned any man and no man owned any woman.

But that's not the way love goes. You show the good, disguise the bad.

We do not have direct access to the physical world. It may feel as if we have direct access, but this is an illusion created by our brain" (Frith 2007).

Following the lead of Paul Cézanne and the Cubists, Greenberg saw that the distinctive feature of painting is its flatness; therefore, he thought that painting should purge itself of all illusions of depth and turn that concern over to sculpture.

Our perception of the world is a fantasy that coincides with reality. (Frith 2007)