Quotes About Illusion

Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.

We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes.

The world has always been the same - An endless farce, an antic game, A universal masquerade!

Was ich besitze, seh ich wie im Weiten, Und was verschwand, wird mir zu Wirklichkeiten.

No one is more of a slave than he who thinks himself free without being so.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

So give me back that time again, When I was still 'becoming', [185] When words gushed like a fountain In new, and endless flowing, Then for me mists veiled the world, In every bud the wonder glowed, A thousand flowers I unfurled, [190] That every valley, richly, showed. I had nothing, yet enough: Joy in illusion, thirst for truth. Give every passion, free to move, The deepest bliss, filled with pain, [195] The force of hate, the power of love, Oh, give me back my youth again!

Bu durumda olan yaln?zca ben de?ilim. Bütün insanlar umutlar?nda kand?r?l?yor, beklentilerinde aldat?l?yorlar.

Life is a publicity stunt. A shill. You've been had.

Life is a toy made of glass; it appears to be of inestimable price, but in reality it is very cheap.

One's only real life is the life one never leads.

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

There is no such thing as real happiness in life. The justest definition that was ever given of it was "a tranquil acquiescence under an agreeable delusion"--I forget where.

All names and forms are the garbs and covers under which the one life is hidden.

I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

Life is the art of being well deceived.

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

This craving for health, wealth, long life, and the like - the so - called good - is nothing but an illusion.

Life can show up no other way than that way in which you perceive it.

He hath awakened from the dream of life.

Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!

The life of the mind is always more interesting than the real. The idea is often more interesting than the actual.