Quotes About Illusion

Do you deceive and entrap him, Estella? - Yes, and many others - all of them but you.

The world is a lively place enough, in which we must accommodate ourselves to circumstances, sail with the stream as glibly as we can, be content to take froth for substance, the surface for the depth, the counterfeit for the real coin. I wonder no philosopher has ever established that our globe itself is hollow. It should be, if Nature is consistent in her works.

The leprosy of unreality disfigured every human creature in attendance

it was a delusive pie, the crust being like a disappointing head, phrenologically speaking: full of lumps and bumps, with nothing particular underneath.

Y así la visión de obrar bien que con tanta frecuencia es el sangriento espejismo de mucha gente buena, se ofreció a él y hasta llegó a concebir la ilusión de poder ejercer alguna influencia en la dirección de aquella rabiosa Revolución que tan terribles derroteros seguía.

Why, then, you are not to see anywhere, what you don't see in fact; you are not to have anywhere, what you don't have in fact. What is called Taste, is only another name for Fact.

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Molyok, legyek és más csúnya teremtmények a gyertyaláng körül röpdösnek – felelte Estella, és odapillantott. – Mit tehet a gyertya róla?

All the gentlemen were very pigeon-breasted and very blue about the beards; and all the ladies were miraculous figures; and all the ladies and all the gentlemen were looking intensely nowhere, and staring with extraordinary earnestness at nothing.

Yet it did seem (though not to him, for he saw nothing of it) as if fantastic hope could take as strong a hold as Fact. p.

Jak nauczy?o mnie do?wiadczenie, obraz, jaki zakochany tworzy sobie o przedmiocie swojej mi?o?ci, nie zawsze zgodny bywa z prawd?

It's like looking for a needle that no one ever lost in a haystack that never was—

If the basic fallacies, or the absence of base, in every specialization of thought can be seen by the units of its opposition, why then we see that all supposed foundations in our whole existence are myths, and that all discussion and supposed progress are the conflicts of phantoms and the overthrow of old delusions by new delusions. Nevertheless

undistorted interpretation of external sounds in the mind of a dreamer could not continue to exist in a dreaming mind, because that touch of relative realness would be of awakening and not of dreaming.

Marrying a woman for her beauty makes no more sense than eating a bird for its singing. But it's a common mistake nonetheless.

For neither Man nor Angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone, By his permissive will, through Heaven and Earth: And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems...

Light travels faster than sound. That's why most people seem bright until you hear them speak.

Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our anti-materialistic, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should be as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu, and seaweed slime.

The past is never there when you try to go back. It exists, but only in memory. To pretend otherwise is to invite a mess.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.

Pure mathematics is the magician's real wand.

What is taken from you before you get it? Your photograph.

Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night.

Disneyland is Vegas for children.