Quotes About Illusion

Good design looks easy. Like great athletes, great designers make it look easy. Mostly this is an illusion.

We need a dream-world in order to discover the features of the real world we think we inhabit.

The gods tempt us. They offer us riches and sweet smelling women, tres leches, each milk sweeter than the one before. But you cannot beat the gods. The grander house and the bigger deal only mean more borrowed time, more risk. When you build your life on a house of cards, you never know when the joker will turn up.

The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.

Just because you pretend the universe doesn't have teeth doesn't mean you won't get eaten in the end.

But it's not real life. It's just America.

I walk home, thinking of another place, of seemingly long endless summers and the shade of different kinds of trees; and then of winters when the branches of the trees were bare, so bare that, recalling them now, it seems inconceivable to me that I looked at them and did not think of the summer just gone, and the spring soon to come, as illusions; as dreams, never fulfilled, never to be fulfilled.' Philoctetes.

Well, life is not just a business of standing on dry land and occasionally getting your feet wet. It is merely an illusion that some of us stand on one bank and some on the opposite. So long as we stand like that we are not living at all, but dreaming. So jump, jump in, and let the shock wake us up. Even if we drown, at least for a moment or two before we die we shall be awake and alive. She

Since there was no longer a horizon towards which to rush, they would invent fake ones - substitute horizons.

In his clear view of the world, free from illusion--suddenly saw that the day of men like the Colonel was over. The Great War had created a new world in which the values of the Colonel and his kind had become outdated, even dangerous, for they assumed that men still adhered to a code of honour simply because they belonged to a particular class. And this was no longer true.

What's the world's greatest lie?" the boy asked. "It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.

What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.

Everyone believes the world's greatest lie... says the mysterious old man. What is the world's greatest lie? the little boy asks. The old man replies, It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.

We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist and to be blind to the great lessons that are right there before our eyes.

You say they create their own reality, said Veronika, but what is reality?

what the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over

God hides the fires of hell within paradise.

What we see is not always what exists.

The trouble with words is that they give us the illusory sense that we are making ourselves understood as well as understanding what others are saying. However, when we turn around and come face-to-face with our destiny, we discover that words are not enough.

I'm like everyone else - I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does.

What's the world's greatest lie? the boy asked, completely surprised. It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.

Insanity is in the eyes of the beholder. So I will continue to live my personal folly.