Quotes About Illusion

Nothing was what you thought it was, because no one was who they pretended to be.

You cannot see yourself, can you, Anne? Except in a mirror, and there everything is backwards.

reaction. A uniform did not signify safety. Usually, in his experience, it was quite the opposite.

Where ignorance is bliss…" " 'Tis folly to be wise.

How did we get here?' Sophie asks. 'We drove our cars,' I say, teasing. She makes a face and signals for more wine. 'Funny,' she says. 'I mean to this place in our lives when everything seems so perfect but isn't?

These aren't

I saw her as she showed herself to the world: fun, smart, sexy. Funny how those things are often a smoke screen from one's true self. It's easy to act all those things. Up for adventure. Head nods at complex scenarios when she's not really listening. Ready for bedroom play even when there is no bedroom. In the beginning, Sophie was all those things. I didn't know they were a construct. I thought they were key parts of who she was.

In a community that gets life based on appearances, problems tend to be diagnosed in terms of how things appear.

The flesh is not a nature that is essential to someone's identity. It is rather a deceptive way of seeing and experiencing oneself and one's world and thus a deceptive way of living in the world.

When we think of coconuts or pigs, there are no coconuts or pigs in the brain.

To expect the world to treat you fairly because you're a good person, my new friend, is like expecting a bull not to charge you because you are a vegetarian.

To expect the world to treat you fairly because you're a good person, my friend, is like expecting a bull not to charge you because you are a vegetarian.

Fermi turned to Bohr with weary eyes and a slanted smile, and shrugged. "So we thought we had discovered new elements. We even named them—hesperium, ausonium. Wrong! Mythical! They were ordinary old barium and iodine. We were careful—too careful.

Overall," Nigel drawled, "I think I would prefer opium as the religion of the masses.

Oh, of course, naturally, God is impossible. That is the first proof that he exists. Nothing exists as we see it. Nothing we see is really there, as we think we are seeing it. Our eyes are liars. Everything that seems real, is merely part of the illusion.

Happiness is a myth,' Karla snapped back angrily. 'It was invented to make us buy things.

Happiness is a myth, It was invented to make us buy things

Like most things, and most people, it's not as bad as it looks from the outside.

Happiness is a myth, Karla once said. It was invented to make us buy things.

Nothing exists as we see it. Nothing we see is really there, as we think we are seeing it. Our eyes are liars. Everything that seems real, is merely part of the illusion. Nothing exists, as we think it does. Not you. Not me. Not this room. Nothing.

What I am saying is that reality—as you see it, and as most people see it—is nothing more than an illusion. There is another reality, beyond what we see with our eyes. You have to feel your way into that reality with your heart. There is no other way.

TwierdzÄ™, ?e rzeczywisto??, taka, jakÄ… znamy, jakÄ… zna ogóÅ', to nic wiÄ™cej ni? iluzja. Za tym, co widzimy oczami, istnieje inna rzeczywisto??. Trzeba jÄ… rozpozna? sercem. Nie ma innego sposobu.

It seemed impossible that a modern airport, full of prosperous and purposeful travellers, was only kilometres away from those crushed and cindered dreams.

Happiness is a myth, Karla snapped back angrily. It was invented to make us buy things.