Quotes About Illusion

Owê war sint verswunden alliu mîniu jâr! ist mir mîn leben getroumet, oder ist ez wâr?

If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?

For my part, I love to give myself up to the illusion of poetry. A hero of fiction that never existed is just as valuable to me as a hero of history that existed a thousand years ago.

Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the sex, as by their own imaginations. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals.

That the analogy contains a grain of truth does not make it the less mischievous.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

As long as there is a 'you' doing or not-doing, thinking or not-thinking, 'meditating' or 'not-meditating' you are no closer to home than the day you were born.

There is no such thing as a dog

We ourselves are not an illusory part of Reality; rather are we Reality itself illusorily conceived.

If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings.

I had liked him for all the wrong reasons.

We haven't accepted we can't really believe that the most characteristic product of our age of scientific miracles is junk, but that is so. And we still think and behave as though we face an unspoiled continent, with thousands of acres of living space for every man. We still sing "America the Beautiful" as though we had not created in it, by strenuous effort, at great expense, and with dauntless self-praise, an unprecedented ugliness.

He understood everything: He could keep his eyes open and the buffalo wouldn't appear, or close them and it would.

The qualities that make the soul cling to rebirth or to illusion are vividly encompassed by a Korean word, won, which has a cluster of meanings, including resentment, ingratitude, regret for lost opportunities, and a knot in the stomach; this state of the soul results from being poorly treated or unappreciated while living or from any of the many situations covered by the rubric "to die screaming.

My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog was telling me to kill my father.

Batman cape does not enable user to fly.

People are crazy, he says. Havent you figured that out? No one is what they seem. And the older we get, the better we hide.

Creemos lo que queremos creer. Creemos lo que necesitamos creer. Quizá no haya diferencia entre querer y necesitar. No lo sé. Lo que sí sé es que la verdad se nos puede escapar, esconderse en nuestro punto ciego, en nuestras ideas preconcebidas, en nuestros corazones hambrientos que anhelan tranquilidad. Pero sigue estando ahí cuando abrimos los ojos y tratamos de verla. Si realmente intentamos verla

Every political action consequently threatens to become an automatic farce in a spectropolitical theater.

The most dire of all of life's grueling deceptions wedge themselves in in our minds between truth and perceptions.

The failure of wisdom is to believe in self-esteem.

The happiness of a mannequin is to be in a shop window."

The photo is black and white, but the imagination is in color.

There are a lot of unicorns, but I've never seen them.