Quotes About Illusion

No encontrar nunca a Dios, no saber nunca, ni siquiera, si Dios existe! Ir pasando de mundo en mundo, de encarnación en encarnación, siempre en la ilusión que halaga, siempre en el error que acaricia.

In seeking anything, we do so out of ambition, but we either fail to achieve that ambition and are the poorer, or we think we have achieved it and are merely rich madmen.

Civilization consists in giving an inappropriate name to something and then dreaming what results from that. And in fact the false name and the true dream do create a new reality. The object really does become other, because we have made it so.

espejos fantásticos que se deforman en reflexiones

Whenever my ambition, influenced by my dreams, raised up above the everyday level of my life, so that for a moment I seemed to soar, like a child on a swing, I always – like the child – had to come down to the public garden and face my defeat, with no flags to wave in battle and no sword I was strong enough to unsheath.

O mundo exterior existe como um ator num palco: está lá mas é outra coisa.

The more I meditate on our capacity for self-deception, the more my certainties crumble, slipping through my fingers as fine sand. And when this meditation becomes a feeling that clouds my mind, then the whole world appears to me as a mist made of shadows, a twilight of edges and corners, a fiction of the interlude,* a dawn that never becomes morning.

We may be guided by an illusion, but one thing is sure, it is not our consciousness that guides us.

You've never heard the wind blow. The wind only speaks of the wind. What you heard was a lie, And the lie is in you.

I painted myself in false colors and ended up with an attic room for an empire.

Fictions of the interlude, covering with color the apathy and idleness of our own disbelief.

109 [126] Even my dreams turn on me. I achieve such a degree of lucidity in them that I perceived as real everything I dreamed. So, because I dreamed it, was everything I valued just a waste of time?

Anything that involves action, be it war or reasoning, is false; and anything that involves abdication is false too.

Me doro con ponientes supuestos, pero lo supuesto está vivo en la suposición.

Great suffering can give us the illusion of being Pain's Chosen One.

Yet dreamed landscapes are merely the smoke from known landscapes and the tedium of dreaming them is almost as great as the tedium of looking at the world. And hovering distractedly above all this, like a vast blue sky, the horror of living.

Deixa que um momento pense Que ainda vives ao meu lado... Triste de quem por si mesmo Precisa ser enganado!

Kendimizi tan?d?kça yan?lg?lara düÅŸeriz, kendini tan? diyen kahin, Herakles'in iÅŸlerinden daha zor bir iÅŸ, Sfenks'inkinden daha karanl?k bir bilmece atm?? oluyordu ortaya.

That episode of the imagination we call reality

To be adept at deluding oneself is the first prerequisite for a statesman. Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live without illusions. To see clearly is to not act.

nothing is what it is, but dreams are always dreams.)

Every effort is a crime, because every gesture is a dead dream.

To externalize impressions is more a way of persuading ourselves that we have them rather than actually having them.

I don't know why, but I'm troubled by this objective network of wide and narrow streets, this succession of street lamps, trees, lighted and dark windows, opened and closed gates – heterogeneously nocturnal shapes which my near-sightedness makes even hazier, until they become subjectively monstrous, unintelligible and unreal.