Quotes About Illusion

It is true no one except me can see her or hear her, but that doesn't mean I dreamed her up. [...] But if she's not imaginary, she's not quite real either.

The more "normal" the person seems, the sicker she probably is.

To see himself without illusions would not be so difficult for the individual, were he not constantly exposed to being brain-washed and deprived of the faculty of critical thinking. He is made to think and feel things that he would not feel or think, were it not for uninterrupted suggestions and elaborate methods of conditioning.

The outer chains have simply been put inside of man. The desires and thoughts that the suggestion apparatus of society fills him with, chain him more thoroughly than outer chains. This is so because man can at least be aware of outer chains but be unaware of inner chains, carrying them with the illusion that he is free. He can try to overthrow the outer chains, but how can he rid himself of chains of whose existence he is unaware? Any

The idea that one can build peace while encouraging the striving for possession and profit is an illusion, and a dangerous one, because it deprives people of recognizing that they are confronted with a clear alternative: either a radical change of their character or the perpetuity of war.

La menzogna può legare a un partito, ma solo la verità in ultima analisi porta alla liberazione dell'uomo. Troppi tuttavia sono colore che hanno paura della libertà e preferiscono l'illusione.

La maggior parte della gente non si rende nemmeno conto del proprio bisogno di conformismo. Vive nell'illusione di seguire le proprie idee ed inclinazioni, di essere individualista, di aver raggiunto da sé le proprie convinzioni; e si dà il fatto che le sue idee siano le stesse della maggioranza.

la conoscenza ha inizio con la demolizione delle illusioni, la de-lusione [Ent-täuschung]

knowing begins with the awareness of the deceptiveness of our common sense perceptions, in the sense that our picture of physical reality does not correspond to what is "really real" and, mainly, in the sense that most people are half-awake, half-dreaming, and are unaware that most of what they hold to be true and self-evident is illusion produced by the suggestive influence of the social world in which they live.

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also each individual sincerely believes that he is "he" and that his thoughts, feelings, wishes are "his." Yet, although there are true individuals among us, this belief is an illusion in most cases and a dangerous one for that matter, as it blocks the removal of those conditions that are

El conocimiento empieza con la conciencia del engaño de lo que perciben nuestros sentidos en el sentido de que la mayoría de la gente esta semidespierta, semidormida, y no advierte que la mayor parte de lo que cree verdadero y evidente es una ilusión producida por la influencia sugestiva del mundo social donde vive. Así pues, el conocimiento empieza con la destrucción de las ilusiones, con la desilusión.

We have become automatons who live under the illusion of being self-willing individuals.

A pessoa insana, ou o sonhador, falha completamente em ter uma visão objetiva do mundo exterior; mas todos nós somos mais ou menos insanos, ou mais ou menos adormecidos; todos nós temos uma visão não objetiva do mundo, falseada pela nossa orientação narcisista.

modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want. In order to accept this it is necessary to realize that to know what one really wants is not comparatively easy, as most people think, but one of the most difficult problems any human being has to solve.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: No hay casi ninguna actividad, ninguna empresa, que comience con tan tremendas esperanzas y expectativas, y que, sin embargo, falle tan regularmente, como el amor (Erich Fromm)

man's spontaneous activity. It is the security acquired each moment by man's spontaneous activity. It is the security that only freedom can give, that needs no illusions because it has eliminated those conditions that necessitate illusions.

The best way to lose a woman was to show her a kind of life that one could offer her for only a few days.

I felt the first soft glow of intoxication that makes the blood warmer and spreads an illusion of adventure over uncertainty.

Haven't you ever observed how we live in an age of self-persecution? What a lot of things there are one might do that one doesn't - and yet why, God only knows. Work has become so tremendously important to-day, because so many have none, I suppose, that it kills everything else... Work, work, work . . . an abominable obsession - and always under the illusion it will be different later. And it never is different. Queer, isn't it, that anyone should do that with his life?

We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.

The more primitive a man is the better he believes himself to be.

The first bombardment showed us our mistake, and under it the world as they had taught it to us broke in pieces.

What has that to do with love?" "A great deal. It takes care of its continuance. Otherwise we would love once only and reject everything else later. But as it is, the remnant of desire for the man one leaves behind, or by whom one is left behind, becomes the halo around the head of the new one. To have lost someone before in itself gives the new one a certain romantic glamour. The hallowed old illusion.