Quotes About Illusion

Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion.

There is no true life within a false life.

Il mondo nuovo è un unico campo di concentramento che si crede un paradiso, non essendoci nulla da contrapporgli.

L'art est la magie délivrée du mensonge d'être vrai.

Il faut abandonner l'illusion qu'elle [la philosophie] pourrait retenir l'essence dans la finitude de ses déterminations.

As pessoas não percebem o quanto não são livres lá onde mais livres se sentem, porque a regra de tal ausência de liberdade foi abstraída delas.

Relativism is an illusion that arises as soon as something is handled according to foreign, transcendental criteria.

Spectacular cases are usually simpler, and less interesting, than they initially appear.

We knew many things, and much that is false. He knew nature, which is always true

If humankind, as T. S. Eliot put it, cannot bear very much reality, it seems that it can bear any amount of unreality.

Alma-Tadema and Frédéric could paint nothing that was truthful either to the world or to themselves.

the primrose path to earthly perdition.

security—the feeling that nothing could change seriously for the worse, and that the life that you had was invulnerable—was illusory and even dangerous.

People in general attach too much importance to words. They are under the illusion that talking effects great results. As a matter of fact, words are, as a rule, the shallowest portion of all the argument. They but dimly represent the great surging feelings and desires which lie behind. When the distraction of the tongue is removed, the heart listens.

Good magic opens the mysteries to all; bad magic seeks simply to mystify.

We spend our youth hunting for the reality we think lies on the other side of our illusions. What we find at the other end of our search is what lies on the other side of the movie screen: a dark and desolate space that only reveals the unreality of what we pursued. So we spend our adulthood trying to recapture the illusions. Few of us do.

Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic.

Everything that is remembered about the past is washed, and often drowned, in nostalgia, pride, illusions and passions of all kinds.

Time didn't heal all wounds. I think time tricked people into thinking they were okay.

Everything is as real as nothing, whatever way the nothing itself is defined.

I'm not here, This isn't happening

blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there.

Or light or dark, or short or tall, she sets a spring to snare them all; all's one to her--above her fan, she'd make sweet eyes at Caliban.

More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.