Quotes About Illusion

Most of us hide behind egocentric biases that generate the illusion that we are special.

Einstein himself is reported to have said: When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.

Simple changes in tone and volume can cause temporal illusions that lead people to believe that more time has passed than really has.

Not to know but to believe that one knows is a disease.

The ideal was the light; the real, the shadow.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Reality denied comes back to haunt.

Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.

truth is rarely the truth and the things you thought weren't true often turn out not to be false.

O world, Your love, your chances, are beyond the stretch Of any hand from here! And so, unreal, A touching dream to which we all are lulled But wake from separately.

It was bigger than he remembered, and much uglier. Strange, how when he lived there he had believed everything the Goggle-screens told him about the city's elegant lines, its perfect beauty. Now he saw that it was ugly; no better than any other town, just bigger; a stormfront of smoke and belching chimneys, a wave of darkness rolling towards the mountains with the white villas of High London surfing on its crest like some delicate ship. It didn't look like home.

The closest we can come to the truth about reality is in the fictions that we create about it.

It is just as if some phenzy-struck person supposed himself to be grappling with an imaginary combatant, and then, having with great efforts thrown himself down, thought that it was his foe who was lying there;

Ik weet dat dit net is gebeurd, ik ben niet gek, en toch lijkt het me onwaarschijnlijk.

Puede que vivir, seguir viviendo, sea saber que lo real no lo es totalmente, puede que sea elegir otra realidad cuando la que hemos conocido adquiere un peso insoportable.

Schloss le regarde comme un monstre, un monstre qui a pris l'eau, mais un monstre tout de même.

Sie war nicht schön, sie war schlimmer als das. (Doktor Véron über Mata Hari)

That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

The whole thing seems absurdly easy - so easy that you ought to smell a rat.

Darvinizam je pri?a o osloba?anju ?ovje?anstva od iluzije da njegovom sudbinom upravlja neka sila viša od njega.

Reality is that which refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.

visions of Rex Kellerman danced in her head like demented sugar plum fairies.

Phillip Tomasso III

The quintessential Japanese balance, I thought: to surrender all of yourself to an illusion, and yet somewhere, in some part of yourself, to know all the while that it is an illusion.