Quotes About Illusion

The biggest crime in Nabokov's 'Lolita' is imposing your own dream upon someone else's reality. Humbert Humbert is blind. He doesn't see Lolita's reality. He doesn't see that Lolita should leave. He only sees Lolita as an extension of his own obsession. This is what a totalitarian state does.

I once told someone I could act. They totally bought it. I've been getting away with it ever since.

I think there is a little magic in the fact that I'm so totally real but look so artificial at the same time.

One thing I hate in movies is when the camera starts circling around the characters. I find that totally fake.

And to me, fame is not a positive thing. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. It's fantastic when you go to premieres and people cheer you, but it's not real. And it's totally not my approach to get my name on a club door just because I can.

The enigma at the heart of quantum reality can be summed up in a simple motto: what we see when we look at the world seems to be fundamentally different from what actually is.

We could be living in a computer simulation like in The Matrix, and the true external reality could be something very different than we suppose.

should also worry that he is being dreamed. (In the Hindu Vedanta tradition, all the world is a dream of Brahma.)

As Albert Einstein said: The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you? Are you the sweet invention of a lover's dream?, or are you really as beautiful us you seem?

The creation of Disneyland opened up an entire "world" for Disney to make actual and physical the lessons that he and the studio were promoting on television and in films—a space that was highly controlled but gave visitors the illusion of freely roaming and exploring.

I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamed of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?" - Chuang Tzu

There is something within me that might be illusion as it is often the case with young delighted people, but if I would be fortunate to achieve some of my ideals, it would be on the behalf of the whole of humanity," Tesla wrote.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

Between themselves and the weak the strong build walls, fearing that the weak will learn of their own strength. So it is that the poor are shut out into the wide world with all of its uncertainty but also with all of its purity and beauty. Whose palace garden compares to the wild perfection of the mountain meadows? So, thinking to shut out the poor and the weak, the strong succeed only in walling themselves in. Such is the nature of illusion.

Children may feel epic and large to theyselves and yet be only scraps to view.

We knew we was just fragments of legend and had never really existed in that town. There is no better feeling.

The world loves to be deceived.

The world wants to be deceived.

Er wuenschte sich eine Falltuer herbei, durch die er nach unten stuerzen duerfte - fort von der unwirklichen Realitaet in ein schwarzes Loch des Vergessens. Doch so etwas geschah nur in Traeumen.

What sort of life is it if you can't distinguish between madness and reality?

Strogo uzevši, oko je samo produžena alatka našeg istinskog vizualnog osjetilnog organa - mozga, koji nikada ne dopušta da promatramo stvarnost, nego samo njezinu interpretaciju.

Hüte dich vor Männern mit Hundegesichtern. Sie wedeln nur so lange mit dem Schwanz, bis sie dich besprungen haben.

A childish illusion, fixed in the minds of all children born in a certain decade and hammered home for four years, can easily reappear as a deadly serious political ideology twenty years later.