Quotes About Illusion

The place where optimism flourishes the most is the lunatic asylum.

Das Ego des Menschen ist das falsche Ego; Gottes Ego ist das wahre Ego. Doch was ist das Ego? Das Ego ist Teil einer Linie: an einem Ende der Linie befindet sich Gottes Ego, am anderen das Ego des Menschen. Letzteres ist falsch, weil der Mensch sein Ego mit seinen Illusionen überdeckt hat, die er Ich-selbst nennt. Daher, wenn das Ego durch Liebe, Weisheit oder Meditation aufgelöst wird verfliegen die Wolken, die es bedeckten und das wahre Ego, Gottes Ego tritt in Erscheinung. (S. 176)

The world is full of monsters with friendly faces.

Thw world is full of monsters with friendly faces.

The moment we crossed over the threshold, the moment when our veins and cells and organs went blip, I closed my eyes And illusioned. It wasn't like any illusion I'd created before. It flowed from me like a song, an orchestra of interweaving threads and melodies, painting themselves into a picture around us. [Everything] ... disappeared, and only Constantine, Queen Honoria and I stood in the nothing between two worlds.

understanding why we are susceptible to such illusions can provide insight into the risks of hyper-novelty.

This means that the cover story isn't true, but when people behave as if it were, they prosper.

In families of white-collar workers, if children engage in physical activity only when parents ferry them to specially sanctioned places and times for formal sport, the illusion is created that real physical work is always an option, never a necessity. While that may serve your class aspirations (and it may currently reflect the reality of your life), it does not serve your child.

Lie really could be construed as the art of illusion by some people.

what's real doesn't always matter. What people think has been done to them can be just as serious as what really happened.

When everything is bent into a jolly shape, everything feels more mournful than it should.

I enjoy the illusion of a waiting audience. It makes me feel less invisible and irrelevant, and those are maybe the saddest, stupidest words I've ever written.

I wonder if I'm going crazy. I think I read somewhere - or was it something I learned in psychology class? - that people often make up their own reality as a means of coping with what their brains can't possible handle. The idea comforts me, because while no one else out there seems to be trying to protect or save me, at least maybe my brain in.

Just because it's made up, doesn't mean it isn't real," said Penn. "Made up is the most powerful real there is.

Who people think they are and what people think they want is not really who they are or what they want.

Just because it's made up, doesn't mean it isn't

Just because it's made up, doesn't mean it isn't real...Made up is the most powerful real there is.

I like labels because they mean organized and order and control and correct." "Sometimes they do. And sometimes they just give you the illusion of those things. Giving something a label and putting it in a box makes you feel like you've understood it and accounted for it and can keep track of it, and that's great for things like paperwork or books, but sometimes things get mislabeled or misfiled, and then they get misunderstood or misaccounted for.

The male ego is a powerful source of self-delusion." That made me laugh. "How do they do it?" I asked. "I don't know, but every single one of them looks in the mirror every morning and sees an Adonis staring back at him. And somehow that carries over into the rest of their lives.

Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.

See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part.

What's that as flies without wings, your ladyship? Time! Time!

The only reality was nothingness, and over it a hypocrisy of words.

Happiness was a term of hypocrisy used to bluff other people.