Quotes About Illusion

You need to confess him and worship him in such a way that people can see that this world is a lie," says the old pastor. "This is hard, but this is what reveals man as an image of God.

It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.

Hollywood's a great place to live... if you're a grapefruit.

Dreaming was only nice while it lasted.

Lógico es todo lo que se entiende aunque no sea verdad.

For this reason we should not take any confidence from the fact that our soul is contented and satisfied with what we have, given that it has no way of knowing its illness and its imperfection in this, if there is one. It is impossible to say anything to that blind man by reasoning, argument, or analogy that accommodates in his imagination any apprehension of light, color, and vision. There is nothing further that can make the sense evident.

Of all absurdities the most absurd, <> is to disavow the force and efficacy of the senses: Whatever has been seen at some time is true. And if reason cannot distinguish the cause Why those things that, seen near at hand, were square Are seen round at a distance, still it is better Through lack of argument to err in accounting For the causes of either shape Rather than to allow things clearly seen to elude your grasp, Attack the grounds of belief, and tear up the

For it is frequently seen that our senses are masters of our reasoning, and compel it to receive impressions that it knows and judges to be false.

Put a philosopher in a cage of small bars of thin iron suspended at the top of the towers of Notre Dame de Paris, he will see for obvious reasons that it is impossible for him to fall, and yet (unless he is used to the roofer's trade) he will not be able to keep the vision of that height from frightening and astonishing him.

The same trick that the senses play on our

da la impresión de que se ha inventado una realidad falsa y no sabemos si realmente cree en ella o sólo lo pretende.

Muchos, en su optimismo unidimensional, creyeron ingenuamente que la izquierda había llegado al poder. En realidad, se apuntalaba un intento de restauración.

Only two months after the battle he wrote a sad description of his own fate: "I spend my time building castles in the air, but in the end all of them, and I, blow away in the end." It is an epitaph that might serve all the empire builders of the violent century.

When one had sufficient control over fantasy, one had no need of reality.

The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation.

Words do not reflect the world, not because there is no world, but because words are not mirrors.

even a mirror will not show you yourself, if you do not wish to see.

What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.

A strange thing, he thought, the way the human mind could form false systems of belief and cling to them in the face of the laws of love and the certainty of death.

The surfaces fool us.

I thought I heard a cow mooing in Seese's back yard. Later on, later down the road, as they say, I would learn that this was the sound of the Rinpoche chanting some ancient prayer. But, at that moment, it sounded to me very much like a mooing cow.

Besides, there's nothing like the truth to make a convincing lie.

Šiaip ar taip, ? nevilt? nepuoliau. Ir dabar jai nepasiduodu. Tik apsimetu. Sunkiausias dalykas gyvenime man visada buvo m?ginimas visiškai nusivilti. Nieko nepadarysi. Manyje visada yra kažkas, kas nesiliauja šypsoj?sis.

Buvau jaunas, jaunesnis nei maniau. Ir vis d?lto mano naivumas buvo jau senas ir be iliuzij?. Ties? pasakius, jis amžinas: ?žvelgiu j? kiekvienoje naujoje kartoje, pradedant 1947 met? Sen Žermen de Pr? "žiurk?mis" ir baigiant Kalifornijos beat generation , pas kuriuos kartais apsilankau, nes man smagu kitose vietose ir kituose veiduose atpažinti grimasas, kurias darydavau dvidešimtmetis.