Quotes About Illusion

Perhaps most intriguing of all is that it is possible to photograph what is impossible for the human eye to see - cumulative time.

Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.

The devil is so subtle that he dominates man and persuades him at the same time that he is not being dominated.

We are surrounded by curtains. We only perceive the world behind a curtain of semblance. At the same time, an object needs to be covered in order to be recognized at all.

You can't function in society if you don't involve yourself in the fictions society accepts about time. But you do so with the understanding that you're playing a game.

The camera lies all the time; lies 24 times/second.

Mind conjures miracles out of time.

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

"All right", said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.

An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time

Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face.

A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.

Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder.

After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.

That means that the universe is two-dimensional. Matter, energy, time, you, me and the floor are holograms.

Time and space are just projections of your consciousness.

I've always really liked theater. It fascinated me. You can create a reality and get people involved in that reality. It takes place in real time.

I wonder why people like to believe I'm high all the time. I guess . . . maybe they think someone else can take their trip for them.

Time is an illusion.

We live in a culture that has a real hard time distinguishing fiction from reality. Even when they're told something is fiction.

Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine

Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.

The Person is a bubble on Time's sea.