Quotes About Illusion

Someone has defined insanity as an inability to choose among false alternatives. In dreams we are insane. We wander across our limitless dreamscapes as madmen.

Art is the lie that helps us to see the truth.

People would rather believe than know.

Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.

It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection.

With her curling blond hair and her slender limbs and her beautiful clothes, Inez was alluring in an obvious way, and yet it was easy enough to see that her slightly protruding blue eyes were blank screens of self-love on which a small selection of fake emotions was allowed to flicker.

The moment we recognize an illusion as illusion, it ceases to be illusion and becomes an expression or aspect of reality and experience.

All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.

And Richard Cory, one calm summer night, / Went home and put a bullet through his head.

If any teach NIRVÂNA is to cease, Say unto such they lie. If any teach NIRVÂNA is to live, Say unto such they err.

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

People who look for easy money invariably pay for the privilege of proving conclusively that it cannot be found on this sordid earth.

A fake and false one, cannot stay in front of reality and truth; it collapses naturally.

A journey, towards a mirage, never ends.

Appearance in disguise hides the original form.

Behind every fake exists a real one.

Everyone is a passenger of interests; such a journey never ends as a mirage.

I am a real person really in all the dimensions, not a fake or a hoax; however, the blind of insight can't realize it since blind stays blind.

The false appearances verify the lies.

The false hope specifies and results in the collapse of ambition, dream, and time.

The false, fake, and pretended qualities such as generosity, sincerity, fidelity, love, honesty, and justice hold a beautiful outer and an ugly inner coffin; when one opens and searches the reality in that, it only realizes the emptiness of that or faces contradicting context of that; thus, burying such a coffin is better. Those who understand this point; live in pleasure and those, who don't understand, live in worry.

The truth is that a lie is also a truth.

Time holds no time and age; we create that for our ease and need.

To dream a dream is not a problem; however, living in it, is a big problem.