Quotes About Illusion

Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas.

The technologies of virtual reality are attempting to make us see from beneath, from inside, from behind... as if we were God.

Electronic communication is an instantaneous and illusory contact that creates a sense of intimacy without the emotional investment that leads to close friendships.

[Statistics] Fiction in its most uninteresting form.

Dr. Turing of Cambridge says that the soul is an illusion and that all that defines us as human beings can be reduced to a series of mechanical operations.

My heart battered against my ribs, my breath stalled and I gazed up into his laughing, smiling eyes...eyes that suddently glowed crimson and cruel.

Time is a mind construct. It's not real.

Time is just an illusion. What you need is to live this very moment. That is all that matters.

I already am eating from the trash can all the time. The name of this trash can is ideology. The material force of ideology makes me not see what I am effectively eating.

The great cosmic illusion is a hierophany.... One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes in its reality, and therefore forgets or despises eternity.

This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not through, the eye.

I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me . . . Failure always made me try harder next time.

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

Hallucinations are an inner experience in which most of the time you forget you're there.

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

The stock market is never obvious. It is designed to fool most of the people, most of the time.

I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.

Modern humans became fixated on a collective hallucination of linear time, ignoring the fractal spirals of the surrounding universe.

Misdirect ALL the time.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema.

You can fool most of the people most of the time.