Quotes About Illusion

To believe that will has power over potentiality, that the passage to actuality is the result of a decision that puts an end to the ambiguity of potentiality (which is always potentiality to do and not to do) — this is the perpetual illusion of morality.

There are more puzzles in the shadow of a man walking under the sun than in all past, present, and future religions.

L'amore fa il resto. Quello che a volte illude ma che non si compra e non si vende. Mai.

I believe that nothing can be more abstract, more unreal, than what we actually see.

Senseless creatures, you don't see how much evil is concealed under a little good appearance.

dumheden hos disse mænd og den endnu større dumhed hos dem, der tror, at de er stærkere end naturen, og med eventyrlige argumenter bilder sig selv ind, at de formår, hvad de ikke formår, og ønsker at få andre til at handle ligesom dem selv, selvom det strider imod deres natur.

Every dog in their home feels like a lion, until a real lion walks in." Giovanni Gambino

Los ignorantes tienen necesidad de ilusionarse, los obreros tienen necesidad de trabajar y los industriales de ganar dinero.

Entonces Don Quijote comprendió de qué clase de paño estaban hechas las mujeres, sin excluir las que parecen angelicales, y cobró odio hasta contra la poesía que tan poca ayuda le había prestado

Quem imagina que vive porque enche e esvazia o ventre, porque fala e corre, porque gera filhos e escava fossos ilude-se e está morto - um daqueles mortos aos quais é permitido sepultar os seus mortos. Vivemos sem medo, no meio de uma multidão de cadáveres que andam, sorriem e serão sepultados sem terem jamais vivido.

L'Onu è un baraccone di piccole virtù. Chi lo magnifica come una mirabile entità salvifica è un illuso e probabilmente un ipocrita.

La realtà può permettersi ogni stranezza: la fantasia no.

Por maior que seja este império, ele não é mais que uma grande prisão e o imperador que detém as chaves dela é o seu carcereiro, mas os carcereiros não vivem muito melhor do que os prisioneiros.» Ou isto: «Os russos preocupam-se muito menos em ser civilizados do que em fazer crer que o são.»

dispor espelhos em círculo para transformar uma centelha em encantamento.

Murky thoughts, like murky waters, can serve two purposes only: to hide what lies beneath, which is our ignorance, or to make the shallow seem deep

What IS this place? I have arrhythmia. My arms are prickling. I thought I was so smart. I was going to save the show. But there IS no show! Spider-Man the Musical was never Spider-Man the Musical. I see that now. It's always been nothing more than a diabolical machine built by the gods to teach humility. And I'm trapped in the dead center of its workings .

and the thing that you know to be true is the lie that will kill you.

If one chooses sides on emotion then the rebel is the guy to go with. He is fighting for everything men claim to honour, freedom, independance, truth, the right.......all the subjective illusions. All the eternal trigger words. We are minions of the villan of the piece. We confess the illusion and deny the substance.

Only meaning can make a difference and we all know there's no meaning. All stories express a desire for meaning, not meaning itself. Therefore any difference knowing the story makes is a delusion.

Simultaneously (in the inner voice of a female American cultural studies professor): Only meaning can make a difference and we all know there's no meaning. All stories express a desire for meaning, not meaning itself. Therefore any difference knowing the story makes is a delusion.

The world, Lula was thinking, is oozing, teeming, crawling with miracles. And we live in the opaque plastic bubble of television and booze.

Open, the eyes of the dead are a travesty, a parody, make a fool of the deceased. Open, the eyes of the dead perform that most indecent subtraction, show the person without his life.

Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world.

All the disappointments of our life before the war were a fool's paradise.