Quotes About Illusion

Without the perpetual counterfeiting of the universe by number, man could not continue to live

The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place.

I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.

Man is a torch borne in the wind; a dream But of a shadow, summed with all his substance.

There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles.

Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning.

Men see what they expect to see.

Wizards die the same as other men, once you cut their heads off.

Once, I cut off a man's head, but he did not know it until he tried to brush his hair. Then it fell off.

Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.

Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good.

Even a fool can deceive a man - if he be a bigger fool than himself.

...That he'd seen...two people, a young man and a woman, sitting on invisible furniture with their feet up, reading books and eating chocolates.

As long as death exists, men will continue to exist only as a shadow, not a real thing!

Summit of the well is the bottom of the ground! Man who has climbed up from the very low thinks that he did climb up to the very top!

I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.

Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.

[People] assume that there must be something to [Donald Trump] grandiose self-presentation, because who could be a con man on that big of a scale?

In Hollywood the man who cleans your pool is an actor. The man who sells you your copy of Variety is an actor. I don't think there's a real person left in the place.

By itself photography cannot deal with the unseen, the remote, the internal, the abstract, it does not speak of Man, only of a man ; not of Tree, only a tree.

If an invisible man catches on fire, can you see him burn?

He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in the leg.

Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase.

The only love from which a man never recuperates is the one he never had. The eternal and untarnished illusion.