Quotes About Illusion

No ha sido esa larga enfermedad -mi vida- sino esa larga convalecencia, también mi vida. La revisión liberal-burguesa, la ilusión del perfeccionamiento, el veneno de la esperanza.

Not that long disease, my life, but that long convalescence, my life. The liberal-bourgeois revision, the illusion of improvement, the poison of hope.

She liked to give the example of Whistler the painter when he was taken to task by a woman who said, "I never see trees like that." He told her, "No, ma'am, but don't you wish you could?" This could be a variation on "Ye have eyes and see not," an aesthete's version of it.

But how we love looking fine in the eyes of the world—how beautiful are the old when they are doing a snow job!

But oh, unreality! Unreality, unreality! That has been my scheme for a troubled but eternal life.

Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.

The best any human can do is to pick a delusion that helps him get through the day

Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually receive my mail there

Free yourself from the shackles of an oppressive reality. What's real to you is what you imagine and what you feel. If you manage your illusions wisely, you might get what you want, but you won't necessarily understand why it worked.

Free will is an illusion. Humans are nothing but moist robots.

There is more information in one thimble of reality than can be understood by a galaxy of human brains. It is beyond the human brain to understand the world and its environment, so the brain compensates by creating simplified illusions that act as a replacement for understanding.

the past exists only in your mind," he said. "Likewise, the future exists only in your mind because it has not happened.

You can't accommodate a hundred different opinions, and you can't ignore them. All you can do is provide people with the illusion that they participated in the decision. For some reason, that's enough to make people happy. This is the basis for all democracies.

Being absolutely right and being spectacularly wrong feel exactly the same.

We humans like to think we are creatures of reason. We aren't. The reality is that we make our decisions first and rationalize them later....Your illusion of being a rational person is supported by the fact that sometimes you do act rationally.

The process of concentrating on the goal every day greatly increases the likelihood of noticing an opportunity in the environment. The coincidence will create the illusion that writing down the goal causes the environment to produce opportunities. But in reality the only thing that changes is the person's ability to notice the opportunities.

I have no reason to believe humans evolved with the capability to understand their reality. That capability was not important to survival. When it comes to evolution, any illusion that keeps us alive long enough to procreate is good enough.

money distorts truth like a hippo in a thong.

People who do affirmations will have the sensation that they are causing the environment to conform to their will. This is an immensely enjoyable feeling because the illusion of control is one of the best illusions you can have.

Humans think they are rational, and they think they understand their reality. But they are wrong on both counts.

Inaccurate worldviews are the only kind there is.

I'm saying that people claim to believe in God, but most don't literally believe. They only act as though they believe because there are earthly benefits in doing so. They create a delusion for themselves because it makes them happy.

Internet search for "the McGurk effect." Click on the first video you see.

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