Quotes About Illusion

Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth.

I stood there, watching her. The whole world was a dream, I realized. Everyone was acting in a bad soap opera. The whole world was one big FOX TV show.

Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself.

I traced the cord back to the wall, no wonder it was never plugged in at all.

The concept of the 'good ol' days' must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.

Appearances can be deceiving, Joe. In fact, they nearly always are.

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

perspective distortion to the extreme, if you go all the way to the TTC, those bursts behind the castle will appear huge in relation to the castle.

Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

The farther away you are from the truth, the more the hateful and pleasurable states will arise. There is also self—deception.

Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.

A Buddha doesn't observe precepts. A Buddha doesn't do good or evil. A Buddha isn't energetic or lazy. A Buddha is someone who does nothing, someone who can't even focus his mind on a Buddha. A Buddha isn't a Buddha. Don't think about Buddhas.

Even if you have mountains of jewels and as many servants as there are grains of sand along the Ganges, you see them when your eyes are open. But what about when your eyes are shut?You should realize then that everything you see is like a dream or illusion.

Life, strangely enough, is constantly being reinvented, and loved, even though a tinfoil brain will bring forth crumpled images, and a trampled torso will ooze misery. And yet, it is still a beautiful thing when a man abandons his three square meals a day and his adding machine and his family and goes off to follow a beautiful star. Life is still magnificent as long as one maintains the illusion that an entire world can be conjured from a tiny patch of earth.

La gente ve lo que quiere ver y nunca lo que quiere ver la gente se corresponde con la realidad. La gente es cobarde hasta el último aliento. Se lo digo confidencialmente: el ser humano, hablando grosso modo, es lo mas semejante que hay a una rata.

I don't believe the Devil, I don't believe his book, but the truth is not the same without the lies he made up.

I don't believe the devil, I don't believe his book, but the truth is not the same without the lies he made up

I've quit dressing at them, and if they saw me they wouldn't think what you want 'em to. It's funny; but we don't often make people think what we want 'em to, mama. You do thus and so; and you tell yourself, 'Now, seeing me do thus and so, people will naturally think this and that'; but they don't. They think something else—usually just what you don't want 'em to.

Really, nobody knows whether the world is realistic or fantastic, that is to say, whether the world is a natural process or whether it is a kind of dream, a dream that we may or may not share with others.

You can build a throne of bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.

You can make a throne of bayonets, but you cant sit on it for long.