Quotes About Illusion

Often we mistake knowledge for truth and forget that the sun shines on truth from different directions and casts a different shadow each time. When we look only at high noon, we miss a lot. If we mistake the shadow for truth itself, we delude ourselves. Our understanding must shine from ever-new directions.

Life has lots of genuine-sounding simulated answers waiting to be snatched up by gullible takers.

Every falsity is something we can convince ourselves of, and when we have done so it seems to us to be the truth:

A faithless person is anybody who doesn't believe that God can do and change all things. On the other hand. A faithful person is anybody who believes undoubtedly that God can do and change all things. Oh! yes, God almighty can do and change all things effortlessly and unquestionably as well. Besides, impossibility is an illusion as far as he (God) is concerned. Thus, never be under the illusion that God cannot do or change all things.

A true love or an ideal love is never an illusion i.e. it's a reality. Although, it's now a rare bird i.e. it's uncommon nowadays. -Emeasoba George

Self-delusion is one's failure to recognize a reality. Now, permit me to tell you this. Anyone who thinks or says that true Love does not exist is just delusive. Yes! because, true Love exists and it will ever exist. Note: A Cheat always thinks and says that everyone cheats and a Liar often thinks and says that everyone lies (mark you). -Emeasoba George

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

Reality is a creation of our excesses.

Under each formula lies a corpse.

Read day and night, devour books—these sleeping pills—not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to the origins of spleen, discarding history and its illusions.

I get along quite well with someone only when he is at his lowest point and has neither the desire nor the strength to restore his habitual illusions.

There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.

Each of us believes, quite unconsciously of course, that he alone pursues the truth, which the rest are incapable of seeking out and unworthy of attaining. This madness is so deep-rooted and so useful that it is impossible to realize what would become of each of us if it were someday to disappear.

If the waves were to start thinking, they would believe that they are moving forward, that they have a purpose, that they are working for the good of the sea, and they wouldn't fail to work out a philosophy as inane as their zeal.

Si atunci regreti de-a nu fi cunoscut mai multe iluzii pentru a te legana în amarul absentei lor.

I am the beast with a contorted grin, contracting down to illusion and dilating toward infinity, both growing and dying, delightfully suspended between hope for nothing and despair of everything, brought up among perfumes and poisons, consumed with love and hatred, killed by lights and shadows. My symbol is death of light and the flame of death. Sparks die in me only to be reborn as thunder and lightning. Darkness itself glows in me.

De ce în umbra lor infinitul ne pare aproape? Fiindca în preajma femeii nu mai exista timp.

An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it.

That there should be a reality hidden behind appearances is, after all, quite possible; that language might render such a thing would be an absurd hope.

I very much like this one :" For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything..For us who do it is merely an illusion..

An den Verheißungen der Utopie scheint alles bewundernswert und ist alles falsch; an den Feststellungen der Reaktionäre ist alles verabscheuenswert und scheint alles wahr.

Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.

Misli su se nakratko zaljubile u postojanje pa smo ponosni što jesmo. I naši koraci, lišeni sanjala?ke stidljivosti, kaljaju sjene, gaze?i ih samouvjereno i sigurno. Trenutak budnosti, samo trenutak, i mreže pri proste stvarnosti pucaju pa možemo vidjeti što smo: iluzije vlastite misli.

Talentul" e mijlocul cel mai sigur de a denatura totul, de a sluÅ£i înf??iÅŸarea lucrurilor ÅŸi de a te înÅŸela în privinÅ£a propriei tale persoane. ExistenÅ£a adev?rat? e apanajul acelora pe care natura nu i-a copleÅŸit cu vreo înzestrare. De aceea, e greu de conceput un univers mai fals decît cel literar ÅŸi un om mai lipsit de adev?r decît literatul. (Silogismele amaraciunii)