Quotes About Illusion

Shun praise. Praise leads to self-delusion. Thy body is not Self, thyself is in itself without a body, and either praise or blame affects it not.

la realidad, desde luego, es muy superior a la ficción, aunque no sea sino por su imaginación desbordada.

El más sencillo argumento de la realidad es inalcanzable para el ficcionador más delirante.

A trick does not fool the eye but fools the brain. In order to do that, it must be performed so that the secret parts are not noticed.

The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated.

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

Relativity eliminated the Newtonian illusion of absolute space and time; quantum theory eliminated the Newtonian dream of a controllable measurement process; and chaos eliminates the Laplacian fantasy of deterministic predictability." Of the three, the revolution in chaos applies to the universe we see and touch, to objects at human scale.

Relativity eliminated the Newtonian illusion of absolute space and time; quantum theory eliminated the Newtonian dream of a controllable measurement process; and chaos eliminates the Laplacian fantasy of deterministic predictability.

What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve about.

Destinele invizibile se pot masca în eÈ™ecuri vizibile.

Reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.

It gets harder and harder to find something…real." The more unreal the world gets.

Sometimes it's so easy to forget what's real and go for what makes you feel better.

A woman can tear away a man's soul, while he stands there in awe of her sweet words and beauty. Then she will throw it in a green and yellow tasked, and sell it back to him, for the same gold he dug from the ground, to pay the bankers for his freedom, and when she finds nothing else in his pockets, she will turn and walk away, laughing

A woman can tear away a man's soul, while he stands there in awe of her sweet words and beauty. Then she will throw it in a green and yellow basket, and sell it back to him, for the same gold he dug from the ground, to pay the bankers for his freedom, and when she finds nothing else in his pockets, she will turn and walk away, laughing

There are times when you tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you're still the one in control.

There are times when you'll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you're still the one in control.

It was not the feeling of losing what made it worthwhile. It was the holding on to something that wasn't real.

I'm convinced that most people don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe.

I'm convinced that most people don't know what the hell they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe.

When it comes down to it. "I've never fooled anyone. I've let them fool themselves.

We don't really want to get what we think that we want. I claim this is how things function. We don't really want what we think we desire.