Quotes About Illusion

The fact is, the more you look for something, the likelier you are to find it, even if it isn't actually there; Sooner or later, if you look hard enough, you'll find something. The trick is then to interpret what you've found as what you were looking for.

And lies, of course - It's like astronomy, I always say. Clever fellows, the astronomers, they can tell ever such a lot about something they can't see by the shadow it casts over something they can. Same with lies. The shape of a lie will often give you the truth.

It is just such women, selfish, sweet, false, that entice fools.

The river and its waves are one surf: where is the difference between the river and its waves? When the wave rises, it is the water; and when it falls, it is the same water again. Tell me, Sir, where is the distinction? Because it has been named as wave, shall it no longer be considered as water? Within the Supreme Brahma, the worlds are being told like beads: Look upon that rosary with the eyes of wisdom.

Pandit, you've got it wrong. There's no creator or creation there, no gross or fine, no wind or fire, no sun, moon, earth or water, no radiant form, no time there, no word, no flesh, no faith, no cause and effect, nor any thought of the Veda. No Hari or Brahma, no Shiva or Shakti, no pilgrimage and no rituals. No mother, father or guru there. Is it two or one? Kabir says, if you understand now, you're guru, I'm disciple.

Behold but One in all things; it is the second that leads you astray.

Every time he asked about it, Joseph smiled wider and with increasing desperation. Nef and I gave him all sorts of helpful ideas, the best of which, as I recall, had the Man of La Mancha meeting the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future

Don't you ever make the mistake of thinking that mortals want to live in a golden age. They hate thinking.

The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

You see but your shadow when you turn your back to the sun.

Was ist Magie anderes als eine Technik, die die meisten Menschen nicht verstehen - noch nicht, oder nicht mehr?

Was a mirror that existed only in a mirror not just as real as its original? It fulfilled its role just as well as its counterpart - it reflected. Merle couldn't think of anything else that was able to do this: to do something without itself being. For the first time, she asked herself whether all mirrors were not always magic mirrors. "Mirrors can see," Arcimboldo had said. Now she believed him.

Magie?" Arcimboldo zuckte die Achseln. "Manche mögen es so nennen. Ich nenne es Wissenschaft. Neben Mensch und Tier ist nur ein einziges anderes Ding auf der Welt in der Lage zu sehen. Schau in einen Spiegel, und er schaut zu dir zurück. Das ist die erste Lektion in meiner Werkstatt, Merle. Merk sie dir gut. Spiegel können sehen.

We boast that we have conquered Matter and forget that it is Matter that has enslaved us.

A sa naissance, il entre dans le royaume des rêves pour ne s'éveiller à la réalité qu'au moment de sa mort.

Bijli fails in the dead of night / Won't help to call "I need a light" / You're in Karachi now / Oh, oh you're in Karachi now. / Night is falling and you just cant see / Is this illusion or KESC / You're in Karachi now

The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve. And like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

In my crazy world, above all others...you were the only one who was the ugliest. And you were the only one...who was the most beautiful.... This is the unspoken truth.

The truth isn't just what you see with your eyes. Not just what you see...

There was a crooked child who lived in the crooked house and the child never knew anything other than crooked love…

The man who knows that he lives in a prison will find a way to break free of it. But the one who believes that he is free while being imprisoned will remained imprisoned forever.

Man's greatest dilemma is that he lives in a prison and he believes that he is free.

With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone.