Quotes About Illusion

REALITY IS THAT WHICH, WHEN YOU STOP BELIEVING IN IT, DOESN'T GO AWAY. —PHILIP K. DICK

TRY TO TOUCH THE PAST. TRY TO DEAL WITH THE PAST. IT'S NOT REAL. IT'S JUST A DREAM. —Ted Bundy

once you recognize that every human model of reality is fundamentally unreal, then it all just comes down to which one works best.

Ararsa yokum. Ben bir rüyay?m art?k. Arzu ile tekrar görülemem. Haf?zas?nda yadigâr?m.

Kendinizi hasta farzetmeyiniz. Hastal?k, çok defa bu zand?r.

Roman kad?n? olmak istiyor, mesele ç?karmaya u?ra??yor, kimseye kar?? mes'ul de?il, serbest, hâli vakti yerinde, bizimle oynuyor." dedi. ... Tek ba??na oturmu?, muhayyyilesini istedi?i gibi kurup i?letiyor ve kendisine harikulade bir hayat aldan??? uydurmak gayretinde.

Tuhaf" dedi, benim bu k?z? gözlerim ?s?r?yor. Ben dedim ki, e?er güzellerin vücutlar?nda göz ?s?r?klar? iz b?raksayd?, bütün yüzleri, boyunlar?, bacaklar?, ayaklar? çürük içinde kal?rd?.

Things are not always what they seem.

Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many. The intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.

Things are not always what they seem; outward form deceives many; rare is the mind that discerns what is carefully concealed within.

And the sad part is that you actually believe in The Undertaker. You actually believe that he has all these magic powers which is really alll just smoke and mirrors.

Ah! Speak of the devil, and you find her in your hat.

This is the only real revelation — that God is only a trick with mirrors, our dark reflection in a glass.

There's never a good time to tell someone that you don't really exist.

Clean shoes are no indication of clean feet, especially if worn on the head.

The dilemma of Brechtian performance is that, for all of Brecht's emphasis on rationality and the undermining of theatrical illusion, the actor must convincingly portray something that she is not.

I saw their living mouths moving in conversation and their dead mouths grinning the taut-drawn grins of corpses. Their living eyes I saw, and their dead eyes still-staring. Had it not been for the fear that I was going crazy, I would have found it an interesting experience, a trip such as no drug could possibly produce. Asleep and dreaming, I saw dead men living; awake, I saw living men dead.

The risks involved in the pursuit of magic are--put simply--either getting frightened by unpleasant perceptions or becoming deluded. Unfortunately it is possible to suffer from both symptoms at the same time.

members of any small cohesive group tend to maintain esprit de corps by unconsciously developing a number of shared illusions and related norms that interfere with critical thinking and reality testing.

What people didn't grasp is that the only alternative to a controlled experiment that delivers real insight is an uncontrolled experiment that produces merely the illusion of insight. Cochrane

tip-of-your-nose delusions can fool anyone, even the best and the brightest—perhaps especially the best and the brightest.

In Janis's hypothesis, "members of any small cohesive group tend to maintain esprit de corps by unconsciously developing a number of shared illusions and related norms that interfere with critical thinking and reality testing."3 Groups that get along too well don't question assumptions or confront uncomfortable facts. So everyone agrees, which is pleasant, and the fact that everyone agrees is tacitly taken to be proof the group is on the right track.

Despair ... is the only cure for illusion. Without despair we cannot transfer our allegiance to reality - it's a kind of mourning period for our fantasies. Some people do not survive this despair, but no major change within a person can occur without it.

While 76 per cent of Americans said they watched, read or heard the news on a daily basis, only 41 per cent said they went beyond the headlines.4 So there's this potential illusion of knowing. It is the danger of having a superficial level of knowledge about anything, but believing you know everything.