Quotes About Illusion

I am Madame Bovary.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim. An individual in a crowd is a grain of sand amid other grains of sand, which the wind stirs up at will.

The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.

Notwithstanding all its progress, philosophy has been unable as yet to offer the masses any ideal that can charm them; but, as they must have their illusions at all cost, they turn instinctively, as the insect seeks the light, to the rhetoricians who accord them what they want. Not truth, but error has always been the chief factor in the evolution of nations,

To give to men that portion of hope and illusion without which they cannot live, such is the reason for the existence of gods, heroes, and poets. During fifty years science appeared to undertake this task. But science has been compromised in hearts hungering after the ideal, because it does not dare to be lavish enough of promises, because it cannot lie.

Las masas no tienen jamás sed de verdades. Ante las evidencias que las desagradan, se apartan, prefiriendo divinizar al error, si el error las seduce. Quien sabe ilusionarlas se convierte fácilmente en su amo; el que intenta desilusionarlas es siempre su víctima.

Les foules n'ont jamais eu soif de vérités. Devant les évidences qui leur déplaisent, elles se détournent, préférant déifier l'erreur, si l'erreur les séduit. Qui sait les illusionner est aisément leur maître; qui tente de les désillusionner est toujours leur victime.

Man is firmly convinced that he is awake in reality he is caught in a net of sleep and dreams which he has unconsciously woven himself.

Iluminada por el rojizo resplandor de la hoguera y a través del confuso velo que la embriaguez había puesto delante de su vista, parecíale que la marmórea imagen se transformaba a veces en una mujer real; parecíale que entreabría los labios como murmurando una oración;

Me cuesta trabajo saber qué cosas he soñado y cuáles me han sucedido. Mis afectos se reparten entre fantasmas de la imaginación y personajes reales.

You have built a wall of concrete shit between yourself and reality.

The spectacle is the nightmare of imprisoned modern society which ultimately expresses nothing more than its desire to sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of sleep.

In a world that has REALLY been turned on its head, truth is a moment of falsehood.

Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior.

Ambitions and dreams put you at a drinking table with unexpected companions. Cups were filled and refilled, making you drunk with the illusion of changing the world.

The world is not something to be understood. It is vanity, illusion to even try.

painted moth-eyebrows

What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction.

it's so easy to be a fool when one falls in love.

And the people believe, because Julian lets them believe... he does not force, suggest, tease, prod -- he lets them believe, he draws margins over which he knows their minds can jump, he unscrews hinges on all the doors.

I eyed her and shrugged my shoulders, wondering how on earth she thought this meal was good, but her wafer-thin body gave her away; not once in her life had she eaten good-tasting food.

Tébolydában élünk; én csak egy vagyok a számtalan más ?rült közül; magántébolyom is MÁS az én szememben: úgy teszek, mintha kívül létezne a normalitás birodalma (holott belátom, tudom, élem: nincs, nem volt, nem lesz soha);

Orwellibb ez a világ, mint Orwell valaha is képzelte volna. Korántsem megrovólag mondom ezt. Orwelli volt ez a világ mindig, csak soha nem tudták a benne él?k, mindig valami mást, többet képzeltek magukról. De hát ma egészen nyilvánvalóan apokaliptikus id?ket élünk. Az apokalipszis nem misztika: maga a realitás. Feltárul, aminek fel kell tárulnia: a valóságos emberi m?ködés.