Quotes About Illusion

I confronted the grim realization that virtual sex, no matter how realistic, was really nothing but glorified, computer-assisted masturbation. At the end of the day, I was still a virgin, all alone in a dark room, humping a lubed-up toy.

Reality didn't feel any more real than the OASIS had just felt to me. My senses couldn't discern between the two.

But over the past few months, I'd come to see my rig for what it was: an elaborate contraption for deceiving my senses, to allow me to live in a world that didn't exist. Each component of my rig was a bar in a cell where I had willingly imprisoned myself.

All dressed up with nowhere to go. Walking with a dead man over my shoulder. Don't run away, it's only me.…

I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal.—Groucho Marx

as had the graffiti spray-painted in red on one of the corridor walls: THE CAKE IS A LIE.

Peu importaient les responsables au pouvoir, ils se contentaient de modifier l'agencement des transats sur le pont du Titanic, et personne ne se faisait d'illusions.

come to see my rig for what it was: an elaborate contraption for deceiving my senses, to allow me to live in a world that didn't exist. Each component of my rig was a bar in the cell where I had willingly imprisoned myself.

I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal.

Virtual sex, no matter how realistic, was really nothing but glorified, computer-assisted masturbation.

Let us pardon him his hope of a vain apocalypse, and of a second coming in great triumph upon the clouds of heaven. Perhaps these were the errors of others rather than his own; and if it be true that he himself shared the general illusion, what matters it, since his dream rendered him strong against death, and sustained him in a struggle to which he might otherwise have been unequal?

Estaba la teoría de Stendhal, de que el amor es un error. No es que a veces pueda errar, sino que por naturaleza es un error. El que ama se imagina perfecciones que no existen. Cuando esas fantasías desaparecen de la mente, cesa el amor. El amor no es ciego sino peor que ciego, es visionario, ve lo que no hay. A

pensaba que tal vez era cierto que estaba loco y creía que no lo estaba porque los que están locos creen que no están locos,

Long periods of peace and quiet favor certain optical illusions. Among them is the assumption that the invulnerability of the home is founded upon the constitution and safeguarded by it. In reality, it rests upon the father of the family who, accompanied by his sons, appears with the ax on the threshold of his dwelling.

Die Sklaverei lässt sich bedeutend steigern, indem man ihr den Anschein der Freiheit gewährt.

Die Blindheit wächst mit der Aufklärung; der Mensch bewegt sich in einem Irrgarten von Licht. Er kennt die Macht der Finsternis nicht mehr. GESAMT WERKE. Band 2.

Largos períodos de paz promueven ciertas ilusiones. Una de ellas es creer que la inviolabilidad del hogar se basa en la Constitución. En realidad, se basa en el padre de familia que se encuentra en su puerta, rodeado de sus hijos, hacha en mano

The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.

Gli esseri giovani hanno un'energia illimitata. Franziska non conosceva la vita, e non conosceva l'arte: ella credeva di poterle forzare ambedue, con le sue mani vuote.

La ricchezza addobba spazi che poi lascia vuoti

The government, or as some call it, the justiciary State, as moderator in the social struggle and the impartial administrator of the public interest, is a lie — an illusion, an utopia never achieved and never to be realised.

They've great respect for the dead in Hollywood, but none for the living.

Jaroslav Trnka, this discovery implies that spacetime, if not entirely illusory, is not fundamental: it is the result of geometrical relationships at a deeper level (Arkani-Hamed 2012; Trnka 2013). Henceforth physicists can

The plurality that we perceive is only an appearance; it is not real. Vedantic philosophy... has sought to clarify it by a number of analogies, one of the most attractive being the many-faceted crystal which, while showing hundreds of little pictures of what is in reality a single existent object, does not really multiply that object.