Quotes About Illusion

I romanticized him until he was the perfect being. A soul so beautiful, but so immensely evil too.

If you take steps based on fantasies and illusions, you shall meet realities and remember the had I knows in sorrow

Without emotional response, love is an act of self-deceiving self-satisfaction by an unsatisfied self.

You're just the girl of my dreamsBut it seems my dreams never come true

The mind can fool the heart, as the heart can fool the mind.

She thirsted for love, but found only a mirage. Some hearts are a desert you can die wandering in.

Under this aura of perfection he knows how flawed he really is but his intact denial system keeps this awareness suppressed in the far recesses of his mind.

I always thought that we would be that couple in the movies but not all movies have a happy ending

The idea that only the educated are privileged is an illusion.

Project management is the art of creating the illusion that any outcome is the result of a series of predetermined, deliberate acts when, in fact, it was dumb luck.

Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

A man may shut himself up in a dark room, and deny that the light exists, but it is everywhere without, and darkness exists only in his own little room.

he tends to mistake the unknown for the nonexistent.

It is a very recent disease to mistake the unobserved for the nonexistent; but some are plagued with the worse disease of mistaking the unobserved for the unobservable.

This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is risky, that it is a bad thing—and that eliminating randomness is done by eliminating randomness.

A turkey is fed for a thousand days by a butcher; every day confirms to its staff of analysts that butchers love turkeys "with increased statistical confidence.

So let us call here the teleological fallacy the illusion that you know exactly where you are going, and that you knew exactly where you were going in the past, and that others have succeeded in the past by knowing where they were going.

This is hard to accept in the age of the Internet. It has been very hard for me to explain that the more data you get, the less you know what's going on, and the more iatrogenics you will cause. People are still under the illusion that "science" means more data.

The first leg of the triplet is the pathology of thinking that the world in which we live is more understandable, more explainable, and therefore more predictable than it actually is.

He defaults to thinking that what he doesn't see is not there, or what he does not understand does not exist. At the core, he tends to mistake the unknown for the nonexistent.

Anyone looking for confirmation will find enough of it to deceive himself—and no doubt his peers.*

If you think that you can control your emotions, think that some people also believe that they can control their heartbeat or hair growth.)

From such examples, I derived the rule that what is called "healthy" is generally unhealthy, just as "social" networks are antisocial, and the "knowledge"-based economy is typically ignorant.