Quotes About Illusion

Sus repliegues las vuelven misteriosas, y las engrandecemos en nuestra imaginación.

Playing with appearances and mastering arts of deception are among the aesthetic pleasures of life. They are also key components in the acquisition of power.

To imagine that we are not always in control of what we do is a frightening thought, but in fact it is the reality.

The answer is to reverse this perspective: Stop fixating on what other people are saying and doing. Stop fixating on the money, the connections, the outward appearance of things. Instead look inward, focus on the smaller internal changes that lay the groundwork for a much larger change in fortune. It is the difference between grasping at an illusion and immersing yourself in reality. And reality is what will liberate and transform you.

Most people believe that they are in fact aware of the future, that they are planning and thinking ahead. They are usually deluded: What they are really doing is succumbing to their desires, to what they want the future to be.

Make your masters appear more brilliant than they are

An emphatic trait often conceals it's opposite

more than anything it is social media that spreads the grandiosity virus. Through social media we have almost limitless powers to expand our presence, to create the illusion that we have the attention and even adoration of thousands or millions of people.

To bring power, fantasy must remain to some degree unrealized, literally unreal.

Boldness directs attention outward and keeps the illusion alive. It never induces awkwardness or embarrassment. And so we admire the bold, and prefer to be around them, because their self-confidence infects us and draws us outside our own realm of inwardness and reflection.

What happens first always appears better and more original than what comes after.

The essence of deception is distraction.

If we limit our circle of action, we can give ourselves the illusion of control. The less we attempt, the less chances of failure.

More important, such events share a second feature, one that is absent from an increase in taxes: they reduce our own incomes while leaving others' incomes unaffected. Higher taxes, in contrast, reduce all incomes in tandem. This difference holds the key to understanding the mother of all cognitive illusions.

Quod volimus credimus libenter we always believe what we want to believe

I lay aside the papers. Really, it is beyond hypocrisy; it is beyond even lying: it has become a psychosis.

One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word.

you know if you look close at the black of a tiger's whisker, it turns out it isn't black at all, but a swirl of violet and deep blue and kelp green.

Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.

If wishes had wings, sheep would fly.

To believe a thing is not to make it true.

Hero! He was no hero! What did a hero get? An Aes Sedai patting you on the head before she sent you out like a hound to do it again. A noblewoman condescending to favor you with a kiss, or laying a flower on your grave.

Life is a dream, and everyone wakes eventually.

Mat had tried to make her say she saw a hat floating around Mat's head. That would persuade Tuon to stop trying to get rid of his, would it not?