Quotes About Illusion

Sje?anje nikada ne obnavlja stvarnost. Ono je samo preure?uje. Sva ta preure?enja mijenjaju original, postaju?i na taj na?in vanjski okviri za preporuke koje neizbježno brzo propadaju.

There are many degrees of sight and many degrees of blindness, Paul thought.

you wrestle with dreams? Do you contend with shadows? Do you move in a kind of sleep? Time has slipped away. Your life is stolen. You tarried with trifles, Victim of your folly.

Unii nu particip? niciodat? la nimic. ViaÈ›a li se întâmpl? pur È™i simplu. Se menÈ›in printr-o st?ruin?? mai mult sau mai puÈ›in tâmp? È™i rezist? cu furie sau violen?? la orice i-ar putea smulge din înverÈ™unatele lor iluzii de securitate

Frank Herbert

If you think you own something, that's like walking on quicksand.

De alguna manera, la decepción había hecho mucho más concreto el concepto del paraíso.

Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. The judgmental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.

I am surrounded by such useless clods. If I scattered sand before this creature and told him it was grain, he'd peck at it.

Ambitions tend to remain undisturbed by realities

Some never participate. Life happens to them. They get by on little more than dumb persistence and resist with anger or violence all things that might lift them out of resentment-filled illusions of security.

Any delusions of Free Will he harbored now must be merely the prisoner rattling his cage. His curse lay in the fact that he saw the cage. He saw it!

Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing. —THE ZENSUNNI WHIP

This is the perspective which you create with your own belief, and beliefs can be manipulated by imagination.

I felt that I could remember a past which had never been

These are illusions of popular history which a successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumphs; a good deed is its own reward; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness . . . —FROM THE INSTRUCTION MANUAL:

truth can be dangerous to the seeker. Myths and reassuring lies are much easier to find and believe.

action is illusory. Like appointing a committee to study a problem. The more people on the committee, the more preconceptions applied to the problem.

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Hayt felt suddenly that he existed in a dream controlled by some other mind, and that he might momentarily forget this to become lost in the convolutions of that mind.

Oamenii se nasc predispuÈ™i la una dintre cele mai tenace È™i debilitante afecÈ›iuni mentale: autoam?girea. Cea mai bun? ca È™i cea mai rea dintre lumile posibile îÈ™i cap?t? din aceast? stare de lucruri coloritul lor tragic. În m?sura în care putem noi s? determin?m, nu exist? imunitate natural?. VigilenÈ›a se impune în fiece clip?.

Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed." "And you with all of your memories know otherwise.

Choice was an illusion. Seeing that a man can never really get out of jail, the great thing is to ensure that he gets into the biggest possible one with the largest possible range of modern amenities.

It wasn't a dream it was a flood