Quotes About Illusion

I had yet to learn that nothing in this world can ever match the marvels that we conjure up in our own minds.

çünkü sanat, yeryüzünde ve insanlar?n içinde olup bitenleri, çöplükle saray? ayn? hakikatten uzak ve güzelle?tirici örtüye bürüyen ay ????? gibi, tatl? bir yalan bulutunun arkas?ndan göstermeye mecburdu, sanat eserinden faydalanabilecek durumda olanlar, her ?eyden önce avunmak, oyalanmak istiyorlard?; sanatkar?n ekme?i de i?te bu tatl? rüya merakl?lar?na ba?l?yd?...

En korkunç yalan da budur: Kendimize kar?? bile kullanacak kadar pençesine dü?tü?ümüz bu derin ve gizli yalan...

nothing in this world can ever match the marvels that we conjure up in our own minds.

Güzelli?e hücum edenler içlerinde ve d??lar?nda güzelli?in en ufak bir eserini bile ta??mayanlar ve güzel bir ?ey yapmaya asla muktedir olmayanlard?r. Onlar böylece kendi mahrumiyetlerinin intikam?n? ald?klar?n? zannederler.

Çünkü sanat, yeryüzünde ve insanlar?n içinde olup bitenleri, çöplükle saray? ayn? hakikatten uzak ve güzelle?tirici örtüye bürüyen ay ????? gibi, tatl? bir yalan bulutunun arkas?ndan göstermeye mecburdu,..

Još nisam bio shvatio da u životu nikad ništa ne?e biti tako veli?anstveno kao što jest u našoj glavi.

O soluk insan yüzüne kitaplar dolduracak kadar çok manalar vermi?, onda, hakikatte asla mevcut olmayan vas?flar bulmu?tum.

Como los humanos viven así, creyendo que primero piensan y luego existen, piensan que todo aquello que no piensa no existe del todo.

Once your intellect gets identified with something, it gets chained to the identifications, and leaves you with a completely distorted experience of the world.

What is the biggest wonder of life?' Without hesitation, Yudhishthira famously answers, 'Hundreds and thousands of living beings meet death at every moment, yet the foolish man thinks himself deathless and does not prepare for death. This is the biggest wonder of life.

The reason why everyone is not naturally enlightened is simply this: people have categorized the world into good and bad, God and Devil, high and low, sacred and filthy, pure and impure, heaven and hell. These are parallel lines that will never meet. Once

Human perception through the sense organs is always piecemeal. It can give you an illusion of completeness but can never comprehend the whole.

Discern the real from the illusory, what is existentially true from what is psychologically true.

It is a distorted perception if you think that just by looking through a keyhole, you have seen the world.

There is only one crime against life: to make believe that you are something other than life.

Hundreds and thousands of living beings meet death at every moment, yet the foolish man thinks himself deathless and does not prepare for death. This is the biggest wonder of life.

A man who tosses worms in the river isn't 't necessarily a friend of the fish. All the fish who take him for a friend, who think the worm's got no hook in it, usually end up in the frying pan.

I don't see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.

Se echó a reír. Vaya, pensé, la noche es día. Así que todo era teatro.

Its a dream, a fearful dream, life is

Pride is a master of deception: when you think you're occupied in the weightiest business, that's when he has you in his spell. (Compare Crates on Xenocrates.)

Like seeing roasted meat and other dishes in front of you and suddenly realising: This is a dead fish. A dead bird. A dead pig. Or that this noble vintage is grape juice, and the purple robes are sheep wool dyed with shellfish blood. Or making love - something rubbing against your penis, a brief seizure and a little cloudy liquid. (6.13)

Vanity is the greatest seducer of reason: when you are most convinced your work is important, that is when you are most under its spell.