Quotes About Illusion

Some men hope for revolution but when you revolt and set up your new government you find your new government is still the same old Papa, he has only put on a cardboard mask.

The old cross slew men; the new cross entertains them. The old cross condemned; the new cross amuses. The old cross destroyed confidence in the flesh; the new cross encourages it.

The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.

MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.

When one sees that everything exists as an illusion, one can live in a higher sphere than ordinary man.

The average man is not hard to mystify.

Thus hope, aided by imagination, makes one man a hero, another a somnambulist, and a third a lunatic; while it renders them all enthusiasts.

False glory is the rock of vanity; it seduces men to affect esteem by things which they indeed possess, but which are frivolous, and which for a man to value himself on would be a scandalous error.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

When I was a kid, I never went to Disneyland. My ol' man told me Mickey Mouse died in a cancer experiment.

All things look good from far away and it is man's eternally persistent childlike faith in the reality of that illusion that has made him the triumphant restless being he is.

Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man.

Since there must be chimeras, why is not perfection the chimera of all men?

Men should never marry their muse. It ruins the illusion.

When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.

A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.

Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.

If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.

How easily men satisfy themselves that the Constitution is exactly what they wish it to be

Palming separates the men from the boys!

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone?

I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.

Men who have a lot of charm have it in place of something real that you are eventually going to want from them and find that they do not have.

A friend said to me, "I think the weather is trippy." I said, "No, man, it's not the weather that's trippy, perhaps it's the way we perceive it." And then I realized I just should have said, "Yeah."