Quotes About Illusion

People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger. I remember when I used to think that members of the Cabinet were almost gods, and now they seem to be no bigger than the shoeblacks, — only less picturesque.

There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel

The mind believes what it sees and does what it believes; that is the secret of fascination. And in his book, St Augustine does not doubt the reality of this fascination for one moment.

Nous ne sommes pas libres. Et le ciel peut encore nous tomber sur la tête. Et le théâtre est fait pour nous apprendre d'abord cela

El cine tiene, sobre todo, la virtud de un veneno inofensivo y directo, una inyección subcutánea de morfina.

The discipline imposed on citizens by the bourgeois state makes them into subjects, people who delude themselves that they exert an influence on the course of events.

Illusion is the most tenacious weed in the collective consciousness; history teaches, but it has no pupils.

Philosophy appears to concern itself only with the truth, but perhaps expresses only fantasies, while literature appears to concern itself only with fantasies, but perhaps it expresses the truth.

La filosofia sembra che si occupi solo della verità, ma forse dice solo fantasie, e la letteratura sembra che si occupi solo di fantasie, ma forse dice la verità.

I saw then that he had lost touch with reality. He lived in a fantasy world of maps and flags.

I saw then that he had lost touch with reality. He lived in a fantasy world of maps and flags.' For Behr, who had been an enthusiastic and 'nationalistic young German officer', the revelation came as a shock. 'It was the end of all my illusions about Hitler. I was convinced that we would now lose the war.

Oh, Strange! It's always strange the heart is: only it's the skin we ever know.

Nothing is what rocks dream about

A man who makes money from apparent but unreal wisdom

Nobody's happy. What's happy? Happiness is over when the lights come on

Do you always make things up? Always. Why? Michael shrugged. 'I want to deceive him just enough to make him want me.' What's that from? Blanche DuBois. In Streetcar.

De onzekerheid maakt me gek. Alles is onzeker. Er is geen houvast. En daardoor wordt ook het denken onzeker, mijn gedachten zijn een hel. Alleen de dood is zeker. Alleen de dood kan mijn gedachten stopzetten. Daarom wil ik dood. Op dat soort momenten.' 'Het is een illusie te denken dat de dood een oplossing is.' 'Die illusie is op dit soort momenten aangenamer dan het leven.

If he was indeed mad, his delusions were beautifully organized.

Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.

The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion.

For Jan was still suffering from the romantic illusion–the cause of so much misery and so much poetry–that every man has only one real love in his life.

Toda tecnología lo suficientemente avanzada es indistinguible de la magia.

How foolish that expectation had been! He knew now that one might as well hope to see the wind, or speculate about the true shape of fire.

It's not any kind of rock—it crumbles when I touch it—I feel as if I'm exploring a giant Gruyère cheese…