Quotes About Illusion

Brittany reflected an inflexible adherence to the OVERLORD plan. "We must take Brest in order to maintain the illusion of the fact that the U.S. Army cannot be beaten," Bradley told Patton, who agreed. The war ended with not a single cargo ship or troopship having berthed at Brest, which bombs and a half million American shells knocked to rubble.

Santayana wrote, "The empiricist…thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than seeing." That

The sounds of southwestern cacti are broadcast for several weeks until, by general assent, it is agreed that cacti make no sounds.

Ideas" in politics are often intuition fancy dress.

THE BIG LIE

But it's all a diversion. A card-house waiting to topple.

This prophesied period of deception will be so intense that people will believe what is false over what is obviously true, even denying facts and truths that are common sense and that nature itself teaches (see Romans 1:20).

Not everything is as it seems.

Pinto hove into sight, his drab, insignificant exterior concealing a drab, insignificant soul.

More than a popular belief, it was a delusion of the learned.

Be careful not to fall in love with the fantasy you imagined instead of what's standing before you.

Truth is overrated.

to gain attention, wear a lightly but attractively colored chiffon scarf; if you wish to appear as if you weigh less, wear a size larger than your actual one.

Anything involving the future is an over-optimistic lie.

I used to think that English-speaking who conveniently look, dress, and act human only turned up in lazy science fiction. But as Carly and Frampton dematerialized, I became grimly aware of how well they'd also fit into a psychotic hallucination.

Still occasionally mistaking brightness for warmth.

But sometimes the lies we let ourselves believe are for our own good.

In Vegas, the veneer of glamor was bright but thin. You didn't have to look that hard to see the darker realities that lurked beneath the surface.

More recent critics of the folk revival have suggested that the entire body of work considered 'British folk', from the Victorian age onwards, has been nothing more than carefully staged illusion, the product of a wholesale middle-class appropriation of working people's culture.

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

Our minds perform magic all the time. (p. 212)

Dreams, [...], are misleading, because they make life seem real. When it loses the support of dreams, life dissolves.

The first step towards mastering time is always to make time meaningless

There are no beautiful clocks. Everything to do with time is hideous.