Quotes About Illusion

The moon by day the sun by night, deaf woman, blind men, jackdaw fool, let the lord of Chaos rule.

A horse leaves footprints, even on this ground. If we find them, we'll know for a fact he was there. If not...well, these are days to make a man think he's seeing things.

What they did not see, they could ignore; what they did not see was not really there.

You never escape the traps you spin yourself.

There was a difference between being proud of a grand fireplace in your hall and walking into the flames.

Life was only a dream, and all dreams had to end. Aiel

What is real is not real. What is not real is real. Flesh is a dream, and dreams have flesh.

To die in the World of Dreams was to die in fact.

It often seemed strange that evil had left no outward mark.

I'm an old man," Thom said suddenly, "and sometimes I imagine I see things that can't be, but luckily, I always forget them.

Wash the spears—Life is a dream. Wash the spears—All dreams must end.

For anything with a name(and zero had so many) surely existed......Yet how could what doesn't exist, exist?

Relax, Stranger. Things are not as they seem.

To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting.

It's the clothes that make them think you're not really there.

They were living in some kind of movie projected by this intellectual, electromechanical machine that had been created for their happiness, saying: PARADISE PARADISE PARADISE but which had inadvertently shut them out from direct experience of life itself—and from each other.

What he's looking for, what he wants, is all around him, but he doesn't want that because it is all around him. Every step's an effort, both physically and spiritually, because he imagines his goal to be external and distant.

the idea that one person's mind is accessible to another's is just a conversational illusion, just a figure of speech, an assumption that makes some kind of exchange between basically alien creatures seem plausible, and that really the relationship of one person to another is ultimately unknowable.

They contain no matter," I continue, "and have no energy and therefore, according to the laws of science, do not exist except in people's minds.

Kad jedna osoba pati od iluzije, to se naziva poreme?enoš?u uma. Kad mnogo ljudi pati od iluzije, to se naziva religijom.

The mythos that says the forms of this world are real but the Quality of this world is unreal, that is insane!

Cuando una persona sufre espejismos, eso se denomina locura. Cuando muchas personas sufren espejismos, se denomina religión.

Appena arrivata credeva in cima ai grattaceli ci stessero dei tizi che vedevano tutto quello che succedeva e non sarebbero mai scesi a parlarle. Poi aveva scoperto che non c'è nessuno che sa quello che succede.

The tree that you are aware of intellectually, because of that small time lag, is always in the past and therefore is always unreal. Any intellectually conceived object is always in the past and therefore unreal. Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality.