Quotes About Illusion

Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture.

People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.

Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire.

As a result, nature is something entirely different from what comes to mind when we invoke its name.

Nature sometimes contrives to disconcert by reflecting the image of our creation.

Impurity is a mere superimposition under which your real nature has become hidden. But the real you is already perfect, already strong.

She shows us only surfaces but Nature is a million fathoms deep.

To hold as 't were the mirror up to nature.

There is no limit to the amount of intelligence invested in ignorance when the need for illusion runs deep.

...the beautiful in nature is like a spark flashing momentarily and disappearing as soon as one tries to get hold of it.

Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water reflected the landscape. And yet ... and y

Maya (deceit) means that one cannot see the nature of things as they are but sees them in a different form.

People believe a little too easily that the function of the sun is to help the cabbages along.

There are moments when we think nature happens just for us, and there are other moments when the ridiculousness of that notion is revealed.

The writer Richard Manning has argued that 'the most destructive force in the American West is its commanding views, because they foster the illusion that we command.

A sheep in wolves clothing!

You know what an illusion is? On this planet, one small cloud has the ability to block the entire sun.

Who gives you pain? Your anger, pride, illusion and greed. Where is the fault of the nature in all this?

at first sight everyone seems like human.

When it comes to suffering, appearance is everything.

Love is a sentiment precipitated by an illusionary excitement which seldom fades away leaving the victims in utter hope and distraction to love and be loved in return

It seemed to us that all people to a greater or lesser degree belong to one of these two types, that almost every one of us resembles either Don Quixote or Hamlet.

The illusion that humans possess free will is compounded by the inherent randomness of the universe. Chaos disguised as freedom of choice...

Humor relieves the tension between what we see or desire but repress in order to sustain a survivable illusion about the world we live in. As such it's always potent stuff, and dangerous.