Quotes About Illusion

She wanted her son to be smart enough to get out of this nightmare, but not smart enough to know that he was actually inside one.

It was a movie smile in slow motion, and then everything was okay.

Creo que es bueno para las estrellas hacer entrevistas para hacernos pensar que son como nosotros, pero si te digo la verdad, tengo la sensación de que todo es una gran mentira.

Because is a word used by ordered, order-loving beings about a world which they like to think is ordered. Because is for storybooks. This is... Well, I know this is difficult to understand, but what we see here is becauselessness itself.

We are all tossed on the stormy seas of fate, at the mercy of men and forces beyond our power to comprehend, control or deflect. Sometimes we need an illusion.

Our unconscious ideals cause us to sacrifice our true lives to a beautiful chimera, a haunting dream, a compelling illusion.

Others may do as they please, but as for me,' he concluded ferociously, 'I shall never disclose to anybody that an acrobat, a trained bear of the magazines, a juggler of comic paragraphs, is not a priceless pearl of art and philosophy.

A man saw a ball of gold in the sky; He climbed for it, And eventually he achieved it -- It was clay. Now this is the strange part: When the man went to the earth And looked again, Lo, there was the ball of gold. Now this is the strange part: It was a ball of gold. Aye, by the heavens, it was a ball of gold.

I WALKED IN A DESERT. AND I CRIED, 'AH, GOD, TAKE ME FROM THIS PLACE!' A VOICE SAID, 'IT IS NO DESERT.' I CRIED, 'WELL, BUT— THE SAND, THE HEAT, THE VACANT HORIZON.' A VOICE SAID, 'IT IS NO DESERT.

so many people walk up to me and tell me they're dead, though they're just describing their afternoons.

In a dung heap, even a plastic bead can gleam like a sapphire.

Not one word of the following is true

The puzzle that besets me is best expressed by the following statements. a: None of what follows ever happened b: All of what follows is entirely true

What the eye doesn't see the stomach doesn't heave over.

El futuro prometedor es como una piedra preciosa, hipnotiza pero, luego de un tiempo, su peso podría hundirte.

Faith," Bram Stoker once said, "is to be found more often in a theater than in a church.

You should have said where fact ends and fantasy begins. If that's what you wanted to know." "Isn't it the same thing?" "No, it's not. Mother's like a spring flower. That's not strictly a fact. But it is true.

It is hard to imagine how free will can operate if our behavior is determined by physical law, so it seems that we are no more than biological machines and that free will is just an illusion.

Consider the apparent dimension of the universe. According to M-theory, space-time has ten space dimensions and one time dimension. The idea is that seven of the space dimensions are curled up so small that we don't notice them, leaving us with the illusion that all that exist are the three remaining large dimensions we are familiar with.

it seems that we are no more than biological machines and that free will is just an illusion.

a study of patients undergoing awake brain surgery found that by electrically stimulating the appropriate regions of the brain, one could create in the patient the desire to move the hand, arm, or foot, or to move the lips and talk. It is hard to imagine how free will can operate if our behavior is determined by physical law, so it seems that we are no more than biological machines and that free will is just an illusion.

How do we know that we are not just characters in a computer-generated soap opera?

Even worse, if determinism breaks down, we can't be sure of our past history either. The history books and our memories could just be illusions. It is the past that tells us who we are. Without it, we lose our identity.

Chanters, second-edition sellers, boardwalkers, strawers, mountebanks, clowns, jugglers, conjurors, grease removers, nostrum vendors, fortune-tellers, French polishers, turnpike sailors, various classes of lurkers and peepers, stenographic-card sellers, racetrack-card sellers.