Quotes About Illusion

But we have soothed ourselves into imagining sudden change as something that happens outside the normal order of things.

Mensen zijn dom. Op een trommel slaan om een beer aan het dansen te krijgen, terwijl we de sterren zouden willen ontroeren.

She thinks of how much more space a being occupies in life than it does in death; how much illusion of size is contained in gestures and movements, in breathing. Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.

She thinks of how much more space a being occupies in life that it does in death; how much illusion of size is contained in gestures and movements, in breathing. Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.

Is this what it's like to go crazy? She'd never imagined it like this.

The true mind can weather all the lies and illusions without being lost. The true heart can tough the poison of hatred without being harmed. Though darkness thrives in the void, it always yields to purifying light.

It happens to all of us, time and time again. Because we've been deluded into thinking we're really one person.

El problema consiste en que pensamos que estamos despiertos. Pensamos que ya somos objetivos. Pensamos que ya somos individuos. Pensamos que ya somos libres. ¡Pensamos que pensamos!

There are many kinds of delusion.

The human world is full of weak-minded people, who think they're as clever as can be and are convinced that it's terribly important to persuade even the children that Fanstastica doesn't exist.

Sana ÅŸunu söyleyeyim Momo, hayatta en tehlikeli ÅŸey, gerçekleÅŸmiÅŸ hayallerdir. Hele benimki gibi olursa! Ar?k hayal edecek hiçbir ÅŸeyim kalmad?.

Sana ÅŸunu söyleyeyim Momo, hayatta en tehlikeli ÅŸey, gerçekleÅŸmiÅŸ hayallerdir.

deceivers must expect to be deceived.

Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to becomes master of your own destiny, you have more to learn.

We need to work hard to fend off our natural tendency to view what happened as having been inevitable. Our minds simply want to explain what happened and close the case, but the world followed but one path among many possible ones. If we do the Rain Dance and it rains, then to the human brain, it looks like the dance caused the rain. In the more rational part of our brain, we know it's not true. Yet we dance on.

A philosophy untouched by the shadows on the wall can only yield a sterile utopia.

That was the reason the casino bothered to list the wheel's most recent spins: to help gamblers to delude themselves.

It was striking how little control we had of events, particularly in view of how assiduously we cultivated the appearance of being in charge by smoking big cigars and saying fuck all the time.

What's amazing is that they make a market in this fantasy stuff," said Druskin. "It's not a real asset.

The human mind was just bad at seeing things it did not expect to see, and a bit too eager to see what it expected to see.

The larger the number of people involved, the easier it was for them to delude themselves that what they were doing must be smart.

Psychologists have long known that people see patterns where none exist.

Maybe the mind's best trick of all was to lead its owner to a feeling of certainty about inherently uncertain things. Over

I share your feeling that such behavior is, in some sense, unwise or erroneous, but this does not mean that it does not occur,' Amos wrote to an American economist who complained about the description of human nature implied by 'Value Theory.' 'A theory of vision cannot be faulted for predicting optical illusions. Similarly, a descriptive theory of choice cannot be rejected on the grounds that it predicts 'irrational behavior' if the behavior in question is in fact observed.