Quotes About Illusion

In subjective terms, the search for the self seems to entail a paradox:we are, after all, looking for the very thing that is doing the looking. Thousands of years of human experience suggests, however, that the paradox here is only apparent: it is not merely that the component of our experience that we call I cannot be found; it is that it actually disappears when looked for in a rigorous way.

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.

Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity; so they have betaken, themselves to errour. Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

He now found that it would be very difficult to effect that which it was very easy to suppose effected.

Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.

A sight to dream of, not to tell!

Then all the charm Is broken--all that phantom-world so fair Vanishes, and a thousand circlets spread, And each mis-shape the other.

Answers are the opiate of the people!

Most people think we believe our experience. This is not true; we experience what we believe.

But this was reality, occluded and delicate.

He wear a roo suit - grey-green dapple thing, ain't satisfy to be one ugly color, it be ugly twice.

Ik keer me naar de kist. De kist met mijn dood, niet mijn leven. Want mijn leven, dat ben ik, en ik ben eeuwig. Toch kent niemand de waarheid: dat ik voor hen sta als een actrice die na haar laatste applaus het toneel verlaat. Mijn kostuum en mijn masker liggen in de kist, en iedereen denkt dat ik het ben.

The devil frequently fills our thoughts with great schemes, so that instead of putting our hands to what work we can do to serve our Lord, we may rest satisfied with wishing to perform impossibilities.

Ningún sonido. Sintió en los oídos un pitido, la ilusión acústica que se produce cuando nada suena a nuestro alrededor. La pampa transmitía la música de la muerte.

Lo soñado se confunde con lo pensado. La realidad y la irrealidad se vuelven continuas.

Si uno vive en un mundo de falsedades, esas falsedades son la realidad.

To say that I wished I wasn't there would be a ludicrous understatement, but I'd only ever had the illusion of choice: We have to do this, Hank had said. It's for Ellis. To refuse would have been an act of calculated cruelty. And so, because of my husband's war with his father and their insane obsession with a mythical monster, we'd crossed the Atlantic at the very same time a real madman, a real monster, was attempting to take over the world for his own reasons of ego and pride.

The whole thing's illusion, Jacob, and there's nothing wrong with that. It's what people want from us. It's what they expect.

It was full of luxurious trappings and shiny baubles, and that had blinded me to the fact that nothing about it was real.

The sweetest smiles hold the darkest secrets...

Love is just a word we use to describe what boils down to a selfish and temporary state of happiness.

Apparently, the world was perfect in 1958.

Imagine that it's sugar, Korbyn said. 'You're riding across candy.' Salt can never be sugar, Fennik said. We should talk about the definition of the word 'imagine'.

Fennik growled. You mock me. Korbyn's face was innocent, like Jidali's after he sneaked a cookie from Aunt Sabisa. I would never mock such an illustrious personage, Korbyn said.