Quotes About Illusion

Almost everything looks better from a distance, Long Island included.

Imaginary evils are incurable.

The classical theorists resemble Euclidean geometers in a non-Euclidean world who, discovering that in experience straight lines apparently parallel often meet, rebuke the lines for not keeping straight

Jurisprudential law is sham law: to ascribe stability to this creature of the imagination, is to ascribe stability to a shadow.

remember: not all that is fiction is fictional, and not all that is true is transparent.

Sananlaskussa sanotaan, että vahingosta viisastuu, mutta se ei pidä paikkaansa, sillä kaikki, mitä tapahtuu, uusiintuu seuraavalla kerralla aivan eri lailla eikä ollenkaan, niin kuin sitä kuvittelee.

La vostra Italy non e' la nostra Italia. Italy e' una droga leggera, spacciata in forme previdibili: colline al tramonto, olivi e limoni, vino bianco e ragazzi dai capelli neri. L'Italia, invece, e' un labirinto.

Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.

The modern illusion concerning painting (which post-modernism has done nothing to correct) is that the artist is the creator. Rather he is a reciever. What seems like creaton is the act of giving form to what he has recieved.

We have first rais'd a Dust, and then complain, we cannot see.

You want who you want in the summer You get who you want that fall But after you've got who you wanted, it's not The one whom you wanted at all

The major problem with the notion of transformation is that it forever hangs on to some form of self and never lets it go. It perpetuates the notion that self gets better and better, more and more divine, when in truth, the divine increases in proportion as the self decreases or falls away. The notion of a divinized self only increases or inflates the self; for those who buy into this notion, the journey may well end in total disillusionment. Offhand

The hour is coming when, on the ruins of the old Christian order, a new order will be born that will indeed be an order of the world, the order of the Prince of this World, of that prince whose kingdom is of this world. And the hard law of necessity, stronger than any illusions, will then remove the very object for clerical pride so long maintained simply by conventions outlasting any belief. And the footsteps of beggars shall cause the earth to tremble once again.

It is not matter that creates an illusion of consciousness, but consciousness that creates an illusion of matter.

There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was. Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction. What does that tell you about the nature of life, and does one really want to know?

La différence entre le rêve et le réel ne tient parfois qu'à un rayon de soleil.

Ce que l'imaginaire fabrique devient réel

We make our own truths and lies....Truths are often lies and lies truths...

Het geluk is daar waar men niet is, behalve met wat drank op

when you search for romance you often find disappointment!

Im Zustand der gefüllten Samenblase sieht der Mann in jedem Weib Aphrodite.

Dogsborough: That stock-offering was like the bowl of salted nuts They put on the bar for free: satisfies your hunger for nothing, But leaves you with a costly thirst.

It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.

There was something Dikeledi called sham. It made people believe they were more important than the normal image of humankind. She had grown up surrounded by sham.