Quotes About Illusion

Find the truth and spread the lie.

One can revise the rules, shift the goal posts, but to do so is just to conjure a chimera and mask it as a novum.

Most 'reality' shows aren't reality at all. They're game shows with no prize. Like 'Rock of Love.' His aren't genuine feelings. Then again, Bob Barker didn't really care whether or not you won the toaster. Sorry to shatter everyone's dreams.

Maðurinn finnur það sem hann leitar að, og sá sem trúir á draug finnur draug.

But mostly poetic I'm whatever I've seen on a movie screen

I spent a long time watering a plant made out of plastic, and I cursed the ground for growing green.

I'm whatever I've seen, on a movie screen

If a given science accidentally reached its goal, this would by no means stop the workers in the field, who would be driven past their goal by the sheer momentum of the illusion of unlimited progress.

The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.

From bitter experience she knew that pictures thrown on the screen of her imagination could seem much more unnerving and terrible than the actual facts.

Zeit ist etwas, das man um so weniger begreift, je mehr man davon erfährt. Man kann ihrer nie sicher sein. Achtet man auf die Zeit, so schleicht sie dahin wie eine Schnecke, aber sobald man sich von etwas anderem ablenken läßt, springt sie davon wie ein Wiesel. Sie ist immer da, aber wenn du sie packen willst, greifst du ins Leere, denn sie ist schon wieder vergangen.

The Emperor's New Clothes.

"But the emperor has nothing at all on!" a little child declared.

I only appear to be dead.

Science has taught us that what we see and touch is not what is really there.

We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

Its funny how you can let yourself forget for seconds, how even in the heat of the horrible, you can have moments when you fool yourself into thinking it might all be okay

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

My mother's eyes were incomprehensible; they were dark stages where dimly seen mob scenes were staged and all one ever sensed was tumult and drama, and no matter how long one waited, the lights never went up and the scene never was explained.

The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.

All the romance of trout fishing exists in the mind of the angler and is in no way shared by the fish.

In Lincoln's mind, at least as Lamon interpreted the story, "the illusion was a sign." Both the president-elect and his wife believed it meant he would not only survive his term in office, but four years later win reelection to a second one, only to die before it ended.

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.