Quotes About Illusion

The man who thinks he knows does not yet know what knowing is

She was running from a fat man selling salvation in his hand.

Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.

A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.

And what would happen to my illusion that I am a force for order in the home if I wasn't married to the only man north of the Tiber who is even untidier than I am?

Idle man, chases after fairy tales.

Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.

The apparent man is only a limitation of that Real Man.

Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe.

Evil comes to us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues.

All men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown away.

As I was going up the stair I met a man who wan't there He wasn't there again today Oh I wish he'd go away!

It is not easy to free myth from reality or rear this fellow up to lutch, lurch with them in the tranced dancing of men.

What we have in common is a mass men, a mass bureaucracy, and a manipulation of everyone to act smoothly, but with the illusion that he follows his own decisions and opinions.

Many a man who goes to Las Vegas to get away from it all soon finds that Las Vegas gets it all away from him.

Drink never made a man better, but it has made many a man think he was better.

A man often thinks he rules himself, when all the while he is ruled and managed; and while his understanding directs one design, his affections imperceptibly draw him into another.

A man may sink by such slow degrees that, long after he is a devil, he may go on being a good churchman or a good dissenter and thinking himself a good Christian.

What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

A mad man sees what he sees.

Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.

The man who believes in giraffes would swallow anything.

What did you see?' he asked then. Nothing,' I told him. 'Because nothing is what you wanted me to see, though the man on the table might disagree.