Quotes About Illusion

In their natural habitats some of these species may be, like the golden-fronted bowerbird, easy to locate and observe but may nevertheless trick the biologist into treating them as "common" when they are really just "obvious," an important distinction.

The map is not the territory. The man is not the file.

concentrate on knowing what is falsey, and then everything else you can consider truthy. Let's look at some examples of using these falsey values

To be fake in this dreamy universe is to believe in actual authenticity and behave accordingly, and to be in tune with the real is to know it's all phony and to create, with a generous heart, your own sweet ruse.

I deny the fact that when I kill time, time is actually killing me

It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does.

It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does. The vast majority of printed works enter a state of suspended animation within a few weeks or years of publication, from which they are occasionally awakened, for equally short periods, by research students.

We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us.

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.

Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.

We see what we want to see. We idealize each other with our own fantasies.

safety and love are both illusions!

Life is the path. Can the path be seen? Observe the path and you are far from it. Without observation how can one know they are on the path? The path cannot be seen, nor can it not be unseen. Perception is delusion; abstraction is nonsensical. Your path is freedom. Name it and it vanishes.

Hollywood actors and actress are not better than you -- They just act like they are.

Fame clearly breeds a false sense of security.

Vanity metrics wreak havoc because they prey on a weakness of the human mind.

success theater"—the work we do to make ourselves look successful. We could have tried marketing gimmicks, bought a Super Bowl ad, or tried flamboyant public relations (PR) as a way of juicing our gross numbers. That would have given investors the illusion of traction, but only for a short time.

In a Wizard of Oz test, customers believe they are interacting with the actual product, but behind the scenes human beings are doing the work.

The air rippled with synthetic pleasure and the taste of vanilla.

eerie patterns and lurid colors. Every few seconds

To the novice, it doubtless seems a conundrum that lies can have their basis in fact. Consider, however, the individual's need to have his or her desires met. This is fact. If lies are clever enough to fulfill this desire, they become a truth and, therefore, that much harder to dispel.

Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.

Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.