Quotes About Illusion

Living people wait and see because they fool themselves that they have time. Dead people see and wait.

People stupid. The dream didn't leave, people just don't know a nightmare when they right in the middle of one.

they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing;

The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world is no longer a dream.

An expert is a man who doesn't make the slightest error on the road to the Grand Illusion.

it becomes a problem when we mistake the stories in our minds for The Truth.

We also believe thoughts like "I'm hungry" or "I need pie" even when they aren't true. We react to these inaccurate statements as though they were scientific fact. As

The color white is not always what it seems to be. Watch for white handkerchiefs, handmade altars, homemade gumbo, and light summer dresses.

Senza mai guardare dove sta andando, la gente si muove attraverso qualcosa di predisposto, armata di bugie. Non vede l'ora di raggiungere luoghi dai quali è appena tornata, o si rammarica di aver fatto cose che non ha ancora fatto. Signori delle bugie e della spazzatura - di ogni sorta di merda e di spazzatura. [...] Lo prendiamo ancora in culo ogni mattina come tutti gli altri - ma in questi giorni la cosa finisce in un baleno.

I was soon wondering if I would ever again be able to attend a mass assemblage without my mind starting to play tricks on me. It wasn't like the last occasion, when I became gradually immersed in the logistical challenge of gassing the audience. No.

If we all downed tools and joined hands for ten minutes and stopped believing in money, then money would no longer exist. We never will, of course. Maybe money is the great conspiracy, the great fiction. The great addiction too: we're all addicted and we can't break the habit now. There's not even anything very twentieth century about it, except the disposition. You just can't kick it, that junk, even if you want to. You can't get the money monkey off your back.

Perhaps, at such moments, the sky is no more than the sum of the dirt that lives in our human eyes.

When we wake up in the morning (he thought), it's the first task that lies ahead of us: the separation of the true from the false. We have to dismiss, to erase the mocking kingdoms made by sleep. But at the close of day it was the other way round, and we sought the untrue and the fictitious, sometimes snapping ourselves awake in our hunger for nonsensical connections.

The sun was looking down on this, but not quite sincerely.

Most people feel that the world looks like the photograph. I've always assumed that the photograph is nearly right, but that little bit by which it misses makes it miss by a mile. This is what I grope at.

James Hutton, peering at the fine detail of geological stratigraphy, newly exposed by eighteenth century industrial works. Realizing a simple story was illusory, he instead inferred a world in which 'we find no vestige of a beginning—no prospect of an end'.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

unthinkingly exposed themselves to so much deception that they do not even realize they are being deceived.

Sometimes even the imagination lets one down.

The ugliness at the heart of beauty. Is there always ugliness, do you suppose? Even when the object is very, very beautiful?

It is a common failing of men. They see someone they consider beautiful and desirable and eligible, and they imagine that they love her. In fact, though, they love themselves reflected in her eyes.

If there were no illusions, there would bo no disillusionment. But then one would have no fond memories either, with which fortify oneself against the pain of the reality.

It is impossible to recapture innocence once it has been exposed for the illusion it is, she said. Illusion? He frowned. Why should innocence be more unreal, more untrue, than cynicism? I am not cynical, she said. But no, I could not go back.

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