Quotes About Illusion

Busy yourself with the routine of the money wheel, pretend it's the fix-all, and you artfully create a constant distraction that prevents you from seeing just how pointless it is. Deep down, you know it's all an illusion, but with everyone participating in the same game of make-believe, it's easy to forget.

Large sums of money create a powerful reality-distortion field,

The fact of the matter is that all apparent forms of matter and body are momentary clusters of energy. We are little more than flickers on a multidimensional television screen. This realization directly experienced can be delightful. You suddenly wake up from the delusion of separate form and hook up to the cosmic dance. Consciousness slides along the wave matrices, silently at the speed of light

The underlying solution - repeated again and again - is to recognize that your brain is producing the visions. They do not exist. Nothing exists except as your consciousness gives it life.

Whether you experience heaven or hell, remember that it is your mind which creates them.

To Wiccans, a word is not reality itself. For example, the word "apple" is not itself an apple.

A nationalist encourages us to be our worst, and then tells us that we are the best.

Closure is a false harmony, a siren song masquerading as a swan song.

how bizarre propaganda actually is, but how normal it seems to those who yield to it.

The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.

The seduction by a mythicized pas prevents us from thinking about possible futures

The second mode is shamanistic incantation. As Klemperer noted, the fascist style depends upon "endless repetition," designed to make the fictional plausible and the criminal desirable.

The next mode is magical thinking, or the open embrace of contradiction.

Ionesco's aim was to help us see just how bizarre propaganda actually is, but how normal it seems to those who yield to it. By using the absurd image of the rhinoceros, Ionesco was trying to shock people into noticing the strangeness of what was actually happening.

Hold on. So in my mind, this jacked-up, sideways ridiculousness is the normal state?

Kierkegaard: «Ci sono due modi di farsi ingannare: uno è credere in qualcosa che non è vero; l'altro è non credere in qualcosa che è vero». Poi

Il futuro è una scatola vuota in cui metti tutte le tue illusioni.

Rhyme is bullshit. Rhyme says that everything works out in the end. All harmony and order. When I see a rhyme in a poem, I know I'm being lied to. Go ahead, laugh! It's true—rhyme's a completely bankrupt device. It's just wishful thinking. Nostalgia.

Yes, liquor is the thin white coat of paint you wash over the cracks in your foundation. Makes any rotten house livable for a few hours. Sometimes days.

it's tempting to start universities and build hospitals when you want to put a little gloss on your life as one of the greatest thieves in American history.

All things have the appearance of solidity, but it's an illusion, a trick of perception drawn from our eternal entrapment in the present.

All things have the appearance of solidity, but it's an illusion, a trick of perception drawn from our eternal entrapment in the present. Only memory reveals truth, yet even memory is but an eddy in your mind.

The contradiction of the state - it creates the subject's singularity by thoroughly submitting its particularity to a universal law - provides the basis for the subject's freedom. Rather than creating the illusion of eliminating contradiction in the way that mutual recognition does, the state constantly confronts the subject with it.

Though Hegel constructs a totalizing system, its airtight structure does not produce a perfectly harmonious whole in which nothing is out of place. Instead, the totality renders visible the ontological necessity of contradiction. This is the reason that Hegel insists on thinking the absolute idea... on their own, particulars create the illusion of the possibility of avoiding contradiction. This is, for Hegel, the great danger of the failure to think absolutely.