Quotes About Illusion

Absurdity reigns, and confusion makes it look good.

The "Western" segment of the church today lives in a bubble of historical illusion about the meaning of discipleship and the gospel. We are dominated by the essentially Enlightenment values that rule American culture: pursuit of happiness, unrestricted freedom of choice, disdain of authority.

The idealization of poverty is one of the most dangerous illusions of Christians in the contemporary world. Stewardship—which requires possessions and includes giving—is the true spiritual discipline in relation to wealth.

For the human brain," Edmond explained, "any answer is better than no answer. We feel enormous discomfort when faced with 'insufficient data,' and so our brains invent the data—offering us, at the very least, the illusion of order—creating myriad philosophies, mythologies, and religions to reassure us that there is indeed an order and structure to the unseen world.

The Last Supper is supposed to be thirteen men. Who is this woman? Everyone misses it, our preconceived notions of this scene are so powerful that our mind blocks out the incongruity and overrides our eyes.

The truth, however, was stranger still.

Perception is transformed, and a new reality is born.

So dark the con of man.

Sofi pogleda Langdona, ne znajuci da li se vratila kroz vreme ili je krocila u ludnicu

A veces, nuestras mentes ven cosas que nuestros corazones desean. (Cardenal Mortati)

The blind see what they want to see.

Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes in around her

the world has become a reality TV show.

Para el cerebro humano, cualquier respuesta es mejor que ninguna. Sentimos un tremendo desasosiego cuando nos encontramos ante "datos insuficientes", de modo que el cerebro los inventa para ofrecernos al menos una ilusión de orden mediante una miríada de filosofías, mitologías y religiones que nos aseguran que existen orden y estructura en el mundo.

Az elménk néha olyasmit láttat velünk, amit a szívünk igaznak szeretne hinni.

the human mind has the ability to elevate an obvious fiction to the status of a divine fact, and then feel emboldened to kill in its name.

For the human brain," Edmond explained, "any answer is better than no answer. We feel enormous discomfort when faced with 'insufficient data,' and so our brains invent the data—offering us, at the very least, the illusion of order

I guess I always thought it would be bigger, when a terrible thing happened. Didn't you think so? Doesn't it seem like houses ought to be caving in, and lightning and thunder, and people tearing their hair in the street? I never - I never thought it would be this small, did you?

It was disconcerting to live in a time in which accepting reality required a suspension of disbelief.

And he saw now that it wasn't real. That it had never been real. He could feel that other life shrinking and losing its possibility, and he knew that it was something that he should never, ever, think of again.

the professor talking about eigengrau—intrinsic gray, brain gray. It was the color you "saw" when light was totally absent, a kind of visual noise, like snow static on a television.

All these years I had been sustained by an illusion-happiness through victory- and now that illusion was burned to ashes. I was no more happier, no more fullfilled, for all my achievements. Finally I saw through the clouds I saw that I had never learned how to enjoy life, only how to achieve. All my life i had been busy seeking happiness, but never finding it or sustaining it.

Reality never matched their dreams; happiness was just around the corner — a corner they never turned. And the source of it all was the human mind.

How do you know you haven't been asleep your whole life? How do you know you're not asleep right now?