Quotes About Illusion

Any of the others can clutch a phantom!

How come whatever it was that just spoke has your voice?

The shadows will not bear me away, for there are no Shadows here.

Don't you see, said Father, that you are confusing fiction with facts, fiction does not create facts, fiction can come from facts, it can grow out of facts by compounding, transposing, augmenting, diminishing, or altering them in any way; but you must not confuse cause and effect, you must not confuse what really happened with what the story says happened, you must not lose your grasp on reality, that way madness lies.

A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.

Painting can feign reality without having seen it. Discourse combines signs which have referents, of course, but these referents can be and are most often 'chimeras.

Washington's hair was reddish brown, and contrary to a common belief, he never wore a wig. The illusion that he did so derived from the powder that he sprinkled on his hair with a puffball in later life.

They came up with a way to create the illusion that all shippers paid the identical posted rates while Standard Oil was compensated secretly through an accounting gimmick.

Each side possessed a lurid, distorted view of the other, buttressed by an idealized sense of itself.

like insects on a rubber sheet, we live in a universe whose true form is hidden from direct view.

The danger in holding on to a myth is that it becomes like a religion we've stopped believing in. It no longer instructs us; it only stultifies is. And besides, what do we want with a myth that makes us into people we don't want to be?

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Fiction comprises stories about things that never happened to people who didn't exist.

Realitatile sunt musafiri nepoftiti in lumea fanteziei.

The existing social order is a swindle and its cherished beliefs mostly delusions.

A vision without a strategy remains an illusion.

Happiness is an illusion, Natalie. It doesn't actually exist. Of course it does, I said. It's what you feel when you're not sad. That's unconsciousness. And I'm pretty sure that I'm miserable when I am unconscious, too.

Perception is reality, so it's up to us to create the perception

I'm writing a book on magic", I explain, and I'm asked, "Real magic?" By real magic people mean miracles, thaumaturgical acts, and supernatural powers. "No", I answer: "Conjuring tricks, not real magic". Real magic, in other words, refers to the magic that is not real, while the magic that is real, that can actually be done, is not real magic.

Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is an illusion.— BRENNAN MANNING

Although saying this, I realize it may have been illusory. Memory's oldest trick is convincing us of its accuracy.

There is only what is and that's it. What should be is a dirty lie.

E soprattutto, non dobbiamo ingannare noi stessi: non dobbiamo mai cercare di alleviare le nostre frustrazioni e amarezze per una morte che tarda ad arrivare illudendoci di uccidere qualcuno per difendere la sua dignità.

Truth is what people want to believe and nothing more.