Quotes About Illusion

If fame goes by, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.

The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.

The origin of the conflict, frustration, and anxiety we experience does not lie in the nature of the world itself but in our distorted conceptions of the world.

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false means.

The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we're talking about.

As we gaze into the mirror it holds up for us, we too easily imagine that what we behold is Nature when in fact we see the reflection of our own unexamined longings and desires.

The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.

Our reality is influenced by our notions about reality, regardless of the nature of those notions

White does not exist in nature.

To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature.

Nature is only another chimera.

Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.

George Burns . . . the only man I know who does fool Mother Nature.

When you're blind to your own nature, the Buddha is an ordinary being. When you're aware of your own nature, an ordinary being is the Buddha.

The saddest illusion of the revolutionary is that revolution itself will transform the nature of human beings.

Name the season's first hurricane Zelda and fool Mother Nature into calling it a year.

In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.

Love is nature's LSD. You're going to see things that aren't really there.

What is pretty in nature is confined to the thin skin of the globe upon which we huddle. Scratch that skin, and nature's daemonic ugliness will erupt.

Man maketh a death which Nature never made.

To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.

Reason deceives us more often than does nature.