Quotes About Illusion

I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Oh, but he thinks he can save the world by slaying a dragon! With the help of a magic spell!' 'And he must think that. If he ever stops thinking it, it will cease to be true.

Long since, the standard way of understanding surface has been as an abstract and undifferentiated plane that functions above all to veil or delimit a depth. From the face that mirrors the soul, to the magic writing tablet that reveals subconscious drives, the surface, any surface, all surfaces, have been considered worthy of attention insofar as they are the top layer, the outermost skin, the merely visible envelope of more particularized and specific under or inner depths.

Delusion is not just fantasy but compulsion.

The woman is perfected.Her deadBody wears the smile of accomplishment,The illusion of a Greek necessityFlows in the scrolls of her toga,Her bareFeet seem to be saying:We have come so far, it is over.

For each one of us lives in his microcosm, the solidity of this world is a mere game of mirrors, there can be no absolute existence for what is apprehended differently by all.

Mes apsimetame, jog gyventume, ir gyvename, jog apsimestume

Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity,He's broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity.His powers of levitation would make a fakir stare,And when you reach the scene of the crime—Macavity's not there!

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

Vision, even for a dragon, is woefully unreliable. What you can see with great clarity may not be real; what you cannot see may be the ultimate reality.

Christ has redeemed our humanity from vanity and our time from illusion.

the road to Heaven is paved with bullshit and busy work.

From Gold gold bars and gold ingots bare their teeth the skulls keep silent the sockets speak

I shouldn't have said that. We should keep reality as far away as possible.

I am not devaluing thoughts. Just do not mix up what we think with what actually is.

When we let ourselves see only what we expect to see," Genji said, "we view the contents of our own minds and miss what is truly before us.

You're always with me. But that must also be some version of you that i made up inside my head

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.

I sniffed stardom. But my nose betrayed me.

There's less in this than meets the eye.

There is less in this than meets the eye.

There's less here than meets the eye.

All the things that are white are not milk.

If Ewan was a drink... he'd be whisky because he seems like a good idea when you're drunk but he makes you feel like shit in the morning. Haha!