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Quotes About Illusion

The President of the Universe holds no real power. His sole purpose is to take attention away from where the power truly exists...
~ Douglas Adams
Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random. It was even beginning to believe things they'd have difficulty believing in Salt Lake City.
~ Douglas Adams
And then, just when you think that you have experienced all the wonders that this world has to offer, you round a peak and suddenly think you're doing the whole thing over again, but this time on drugs.
~ Douglas Adams
Mc Donalds he thought. There's no longer any such thing as a Mc Donalds hamburger. He passed out. When he came around seconds later he found he was sobbing for his mother.
~ Douglas Adams
The fact that all of this was happening in virtual space made no difference. Being virtually killed by virtual laser in virtual space is just as effective as the real thing, because you are as dead as you think you are.
~ Douglas Adams
Three pints?" said Arthur. "At lunchtime?" The man next to Ford grinned and nodded happily. Ford ignored him. He said, "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
~ Douglas Adams
It's good to leave your room super-messy when you're away. Whoever tries to break into your room will thought it has already been ransacked.
~ Douglas Adams
So after a hectic week of believing that war was peace, that good was bad, that the moon was made of blue cheese, and that God needed a lot of money sent to a certain box number, the Monk started to believe that 35 percent of all tables were hermaphrodites, and then broke down.
~ Douglas Adams
Being virtually killed by a virtual laser in a virtual space is just as effective as the real thing, because you are as dead as you think you are.
~ Douglas Adams
when we get down to the subatomic level, the solid world we live in also consists, again rather worryingly, of almost nothing and that whenever we do find something it turns out not to actually something, but only the probability that there may something there.
~ Douglas Adams
I have nothing to offer you' said Hactar faintly, 'but tricks of the light. It is possible to be comfortable with tricks of the light, though, if that is all you have.' His voice evanesced, and in the dark a long, velvet paisley-covered sofa coalesced into hazy shape. ... At least, if it wasn't real, it did support them, and as that is what sofas are supposed to do, this, by any test that mattered, was a real sofa.
~ Douglas Adams
According to her watch it was shortly after three o'clock, and according to everything else it was night-time.
~ Douglas Adams
He was experiencing the aural equivalent of looking at a picture of two black silhouetted faces and suddenly seeing it as a picture of a white candlestick. Or of looking at a lot of colored dots on a piece of paper which suddenly resolve themselves into the figure six and mean that your optician is going to charge you a lot of money for a new pair of glasses.
~ Douglas Adams
BeÅŸ y?ld?r tamamen kör olduÄŸuna inanm??ken ans?z?n, asl?nda yaln?zca çok büyük bir ÅŸapka giymekte olduÄŸunu fark eden bir adam kadar ÅŸaÅŸk?nd?.
~ Douglas Adams
La prima cosa da capire a proposito degli universi paralleli... è che non sono paralleli. È importante rendersi conto che, a rigore, non sono neppure universi, ma è molto più facile cercare di capirlo un po' più tardi, dopo che ci si è resi conto che tutto quello che si è capito fino a quel momento non è vero.
~ Douglas Adams
Sawing a lady in half is easy. Sawing a lady in half and then joining her up together again is less easy, but can be done with practice.
~ Douglas Adams
It folded back on itself like something that M. C. Escher, had he been given to hard nights on the town, which it is no part of this narrative's purpose to suggest was the case, though it is sometimes hard, looking at his pictures, particularly the one with all the awkward steps, not to wonder, might have dreamed up after having been on one, for the little chandeliers which should have been hanging inside were on the outside pointing up.
~ Douglas Adams
So that you understand that just because you see something, it doesn't mean to say it's there. And if you don't see something it doesn't mean to say it's not there, it's only what your senses bring to your attention.
~ Douglas Adams
Time is an illusion. Lunch-time doubly so.
~ Douglas Adams
Bir ÅŸeyi görmeniz onun orada olduÄŸu anlam?na gelmediÄŸi gibi, bir ÅŸeyi görmemeniz onun orada olmad??? anlam?na gelmez. Just like seeing something doesn't mean it's there, not seeing something doesn't mean it isn't there. Wie bedeutet nicht etwas zu schauen, dass es da ist; etwas zu nicht schauen bedeutet nicht, dass es nicht da ist.
~ Douglas Adams
How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?" Zarniwoop
~ Douglas Adams
Argi nepakanka matyti, kad sodas nuostabus, negi b?tina tik?ti, kad jame dar slapstosi ir f?jos?
~ Douglas Adams
All this Magrathea nonsense seemed juvenile. Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? All
~ Douglas Adams
Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random. It was even beginning to believe things they'd have difficulty believing in Salt Lake City. It
~ Douglas Adams