Quotes About Illusion

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All these years Litvinoff had imagined he was so much like his friend. He'd prided himself on what he considered their similarities. But the truth was that he was no more like the man fighting a fever in bed ten feet away than he was like the cat that had just slunk off: they were different species.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

The pure soul is a pure lie.

What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.

Zincirlerini k?ran kiÅŸi bir filozof gibidir. GörünüÅŸlerin ötesini görür. S?radan bir insan gerçeklik hakk?nda az fikre sahiptir, çünkü onu derinlemesine düÅŸünmemektense, hemen önünde duran ÅŸeye bakmaktan hoÅŸnuttur. Ne var ki görünüÅŸler aldat?c?d?r. Gördükler, gölgelerdir, gerçeklik deÄŸil.

The problem with love is not what we feel but what we wish we felt when we began to feel we should feel something.

The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable.

Let people be, boss; don't open their eyes. And supposing you did, what'd they see? Their misery! Leave their eyes closed, boss, and let them go on dreaming!

Después de todo, ¿qué es una mentira? No es sino la verdad enmascarada», escribió Byron.

Lo que habían intercambiado no era amor; Rob lo sabía. Sin embargo, había sido tan buen sustito del amor

See, one of the serious illusions we live under in the United States, which is a major part of the whole system of indoctrination, is the idea that the government is the power?and the government's not the power, the government is one segment of power. Real power is in the hands of the people who own the society; the state-managers are usually just servants.

One of the NECESSARILY ILLUSIONS for the general public is that we live in a capitalist economy, but the rich don't believe that for a minute. They insist on a powerful state to protect them from market discipline. So if Goldman Sachs makes a risky transaction, they're basically protected. If it crashes, they can run to the nanny state with their cap in hand and get bailed out.

The alleged complexity, depth, and obscurity of these questions is part of the illusion propagated by the system of ideological control, which aims to make the issues seem remote from the general population and to persuade them of their incapacity to organize their own affairs or to understand the social world in which they live without the tutelage of intermediaries.

The logic is that of a man falling from a skyscraper who waves to a friend on the fiftieth floor and says it's all fine, just look how many floors I've passed with no problems.

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!

It's much easier to get over someone if you can delude yourself into thinking you never really cared that much.

You always think that a bolt of lightning is going to strike and your parents will magically change into the people you wish they were, or back into the people they used to be.

A woman doesn't want to be told she looks nice,' Jude nuttered as she sat down beside maud's grave. She wants to be told she's beautiful, sexy. That she looks outrageous. It dosen't matter if its not true.' She sighed and laid the flowers against the headstone. 'Because for the moment, when the words are said and the words are heard, it's perfect truth.

In all the illusions, you're the only truth that I need

Love, even when it's not real, can be deadly.

Only a fool asked for more sorrow. Only a romantic believed that bitterness could ever be sweet.

a movie set, Julia, is a tiny, intimate world, divorced from reality. No, immune to it." She smiled to herself. "Fantasy, however difficult the work, is its own addiction. Which is why so many of us delude ourselves into believing we've fallen desperately in love with another character in that shiny bubble—for the length of time it takes to create a film.

But love is so often full of bullshit, isn't it?" "Here's