Quotes About Illusion

Emotional attachment to Maya is created by my God; He Himself misleads us through illusion and doubt.

He Himself is Maya, and He Himself is the Illusion. He Himself has generated emotional attachment throughout the entire universe.

In joy there is neither desire nor ambition. Ambition promises joy somewhere in the future. It creates a mirage of joy and leaves frustration in your hands.

It is Maya that makes you feel, "This man is inferior and the other man is superior.

Prestige is a distorting force that makes you want to like something that you really do not.

People's lives are often other than they seem to be on the surface. And sometimes, what's underneath and hidden is the best part of all, the part of real value.

Most of the sighs we hear have been edited.

Everything is illusion. Even that last sentence.

We understand everything; that is why we understand nothing.

Many a zero thinks it is the ellipse on which the Earth travels.

Every stink that fights the ventilator thinks it is Don Quixote.

Callin something a 'moral panic' does not imply that this something does not exist or happened at all and that reaction is based on fantasy, hysteria, delusion and illusion or being duped by the powerful.

Technical knowledge, divorced from what it is supposed to be knowledge of, yields only the illusion of understanding. It's like being able to reel off the locations in a baseball field -- first base, second base, third base, home plate, left field, right field, center field, pitcher's mound -- without having the slightest clue as to how they function in a game. You can talk the talk, but you can't walk the walk.

Technical knowledge, divorced from what it is supposed to be knowledge of, yields only the illusion of understanding

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

Bringing you the Story behind the Story, the News behind the News. Hoping to convince you that reality is usually scoffed at and illusion is usually king, but in the battle for the survival of Western civilization it will be reality and not illusion or delusion that will determine what the future will bring.

I am pretty sure the myth of me Is better than the reality.

The tips of my overgrown bangs dip into the wet of my tears. My fingers, forehead, moisten with sweat. I fight the slipperiness, press the valves firmly, play the love, the hate, the misery, the hope, the freedom that I wanted, never wanted, can't have; that doesn't exist.

O amor, admito-o com um suspiro, é muito mais forte que a literatura, porém o amor na literatura é bem mais belo do que na própria vida. Ao menos de vez em quando permite iludirmo-nos.

People and events don't disappoint us, our models of reality do. It is my model of reality that determines my happiness or disappointments.

And it is only delusion, and not knowledge, that bestows happiness.

Mais maintenant, brutalement sortie de ce tumulte, je voulais encore une fois revivre, pour en jouir rétrospectivement, bribe par bribe, ces émotions fugitives, grâce à cette façon magique de se tromper soi-même que nous appelons le souvenir...À vrai dire, ce sont là des choses que l'on comprend ou que l'on ne comprend pas. Peut-être faut-il avoir un cÅ"ur brûlant, pour les concevoir.

Aber wie sollte ein so rascher Ruhm nicht einen so leeren Kopf beduseln? (...) Und dann, ist es nicht eigentlich verflucht leicht, sich für einen großen Menschen zu halten, wenn man nicht mit der leisesten Ahnung belastet ist, daß ein Rembrandt, ein Beethoven, ein Dante, ein Napoleon je gelebt haben?

dreams are like delicate little white flowers that will be blown away at the first breath of reality?