Quotes About Illusion

Day deceives, but at night no one is safe from hallucinations.

I'm so interested in the fact that we really don't know anybody. We think we know the people close to us, but we don't, we really don't.

Everyone thinks they know everything, and no one knows a damn thing.

He took down the curtains that hung in front of the blinds and washed them in the old washing machine. In his mind they were blue-gray curtains, but it turned out that they were off-white. He washed them a second time, and they were an even brighter off-white.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.

If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.

The metaphor of the cave explains how this works. It occurs in Book VII of Plato's Republic, where Socrates describes the world around us as a darkened cavern, across the back of which a puppet show is flashed with the figures of men, animals, and objects cast as shadows. For a modern audience, the description has an eerily familiar ring. It's the world of television and the media at its most flimsy and superficial.

His name was Parmenides, and in answer to Heraclitus's claim that everything changes, Parmenides countered by arguing that nothing changes. Far from permanency being an illusion, as Heraclitus claimed, it is change that is the illusion.

Ik weet niets van alchemie, maar ik zeg dit: zij zijn op de verkeerde weg. Het tastbare laat zich alleen door het ontastbare vormen. De werkelijkheid laat zich door niets veranderen dan door de geest. Om de dingen anders te maken hoef je ze niet aan te raken, je moet ze alleen anders zien.

Er wordt mij wel vaker verweten dat ik mezelf achter mijn voile verstop, maar het tegendeel is waar. Ik verstop de wereld. Ik heb een sluier voor haar neergelaten. Door die waas van kant en zijde oogt zij zoveel zachter.

De hoop van de ouden vergaat in rook zodat hun jongen wolken hebben om hun eigen luchtkastelen op te bouwen.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

your scepticism has defeated itself and become a monstrous credulity…

So, day after day, he lived in the grey phantasmal world, akin to death, that has, somehow, with most of us, made good its claim to be called life.

She often used to think of the strangeness of very early life; one came, it seemed, from a dark cloud, there was a glow of light, but for a moment, and afterwards the night. It was as if one gazed at a velvet curtain, heavy, mysterious, impenetrable blackness, and then, for the twinkling of an eye, one spied through a pin-hole a storied town that flamed, with fire about its walls and pinnacles. And then again the folding darkness, so that sight became illusion, almost in the seeing.

A superfície não crê no cubo ou na esfera.

Otuz y?ld?r," diye devam etti, "gerçeklerle boÄŸuÅŸuyorum; ÅŸimdi düÅŸ zaman?.

But he recognized that the illusions of the child only differed from those of the man in that they were more picturesque; belief in fairies and belief in the Stock Exchange as bestowers of happiness were equally vain, but the latter form of faith was ugly as well as inept.

all these are but dreams and shadows; the shadows that hide the real world from our eyes.

Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.

I am the master of fantasy.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

L'aube exalteé ainsi qu'un peuple de colombes, et j'ai vu quelquefois ce que l'homme a cru voir! (And dawn, exalted like a host of doves - and then I've seen what men believe they've seen!)