Quotes About Illusion

You've done her a service to teach her that romantic love is largely made of illusion." [said Mina.] "Is it?" Alessandra asked, unable to suppress a worried sigh. Mina looked at her as if she knew exactly what Alessandra was thinking. "I said 'romantic love,' my dear--not true love." "But how can one know," asked Alessandra, "one from the other?" "True love," said Mina, "is something that reveals itself only with the passage of time.

Bitterness isn't as authentic as it looks. Believe it or not, one of the reasons we choose to feel bitter is because it's easier than feeling pain. It makes us feel tough. Being bitter gives the illusion that you're fighting, that you're not taking defeat lying down. But bitterness is a log jam. It won't let you get moving.

Egotism -- usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

Their three outstanding attitudes-obliviousness to the growing disaffection of constituents, primacy of self-aggrandizement, illusion of invulnerable status-are persistent aspects of folly.

Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings

von Kluck's cavalry reconnaissance, with that marvelous human capacity to see what you expect to see even if it is not there, duly reported the British to be disembarking at Ostend, Calais, and Dunkirk on August 13.

It is undoubtedly true that there is no spirit without substance, no substance without spirit, latent or expressed; but a painting of a man may seem at a distance to be a man.

Fairness is an illusion. Neither effort nor intention holds title to the nature or form of either the present or the future. And if the sincere effort has no title, what interest can the bellow or the lamentation hold?" - Davigde. "The humans on Amadeen have a different way of saying it... Tough shit." - Yazi Ro

A guy goes up to a girl in a bar and says, "You want to play 'Magic'?" "What's that?" she asks. "We go to my house and fuck, and then you disappear.

A monk awoke from a dream that he was a butterfly, then wondered whether he was a butterfly dreaming he was a man.

Even the lies were true.

She's not buying [the lie], but there's nothing else on the shelves.

You can't rely on love. Love will let you down every time. Every. Single. Time.

Scratch the thin veneer of what man called culture or civilization and in most cases you would find a barbarian waiting to be set free.

A man may go through life and remain ignorant of himself he may think himself as other than he truly is and he may die with this illusion still intact because no circumstance of his life has obliged him to revise it.

I knew little of the world, as the Justice had seen, but I knew that we can lose ourselves in the parts we play and if this continues too long we will not find our way back again.

Loneliness is just a permanent fact of life. And if you buy into the illusion that you can somehow escape it, you're in for a world of hurt. Want to know the biggest lie ever written? 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. What an unmitigated pile of shit.

Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.

Blessed are the weak who think they are good because they have no claws.

Fear, f-e-a-r, is: False Evidence Appearing Real

Physical reality is only a mirror. And whatever you define it to be; whatever you believe is most true, is what you get. So it's very important to pay attention to those beliefs and those definitions, for it is those and only those that create your physical reality experience.

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.

In spite of all its materialist efforts, production remains a utopia. We can wear ourselves out in materializing things, in rendering them visible, but we will never cancel the secret.

For it is with the same imperialism that present-day simulators try to make the real, all the real, coincide with their simulation models.