Quotes About Illusion

It is manifest that behind the so-called curtain which is supposed to conceal the inner world, there is nothing to be seen unless we go behind it ourselves, as much in order that we may see, as that there may be something behind there which can be seen.

I looked at myself in the mirror. I looked awful, but I always look awful in the mirror. I keep myself going with the firm belief that my real face is much better looking.

The only things we perceive are our perceptions.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.

Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

the devil is not so black as he is painted.

The biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has been accomplished.

I tell you I have created this thing out of the squashed cabbage leaves of Covent Garden; and now she pretends to play the fine lady with me.

The great difficulty with communication is the illusion it has been accomplished.

There is no such thing as a great man or a great woman. People believe in them, just as they used to believe in unicorns and dragons. The greatest man or woman is 99 per cent just like yourself.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

The simple biggest problem in communication is the illusion that has taken place.

DiÅŸ aÄŸr?s? çekenler diÅŸleri saÄŸlam olanlar?; yoksulluk çekenler de paras? çok olanlar? mutlu san?rlar.

The problem with communication…is the illusion that is has been accomplished.

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

It's all bullshit, folks and it's bad for ya.

If a man smiles all the time, he's probably selling something that doesn't work.

You're just another american who is willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick being shoved up your asshole every day... The owners of this country know the truth... it's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it!

The things they don't tell you in schools these days, geez. Have a look at your owners. The politicians are put there to give you the idea you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice; you have owners. They own you. They own everything.

It's called the 'American dream' because you have to be asleep to believe it.

It's all bullshit, folks.

What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling amidst the conditions of an imperfect social state, in which great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

whatever else remained the same, the light had changed, and you cannot find the pearly dawn at noonday. The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the continuity of married companionship, be disclosed as something better or worse than what you have preconceived, but will certainly not appear altogether the same.