Quotes About Illusion

Time is the moving image of reality

And whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man –whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyze the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation.

Appearance tyrannizes over truth.

Since then, as philosophers prove, appearance tyrannizes over truth and is lord of happiness, to appearance I must devote myself.

Then we got into a labyrinth, and, when we thought we were at the end, came out again at the beginning, having still to see as much as ever.

Everything that deceives also enchants.

True, how could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?

Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye;

What about someone who believes in beautiful things but doesn't believe in the beautiful itself and isn't able to follow anyone who could lead him to the knowledge of it? Don't you think he is living in a dream rather than a wakened state? Isn't this dreaming: whether asleep or awake, to think that a likeness is not a likeness but rather the thing itself that it is like?

cuenta Estesí­coro que, por ignorancia de la verdad, se luchó ante Troya en torno a la apariencia de Helena?

Son, indiscutiblemente, difíciles de desenmascarar, pues ni siquiera es posible hacerles subir a este estrado para que den la cara y puedan ser interrogados, por lo que me veo obligado, como vulgarmente se dice, a batirme contra las sombras y a refutar sus argumentos sin que nadie me replique.

what is it that always is, but never comes to be, and what is it that comes to be† but never is?

La mayor perfección en la injusticia es parecer justo sin serlo." (Platón, República)

Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light Plato Allegory of the Cave

Truth, sir, is a cow that will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull. —SAMUEL JOHNSON

Alas for the dreamer: the moment of consciousness that accompanies the awakening is the acutest of sufferings.

He warps your perspective on the current events in your life until reality appears much worse and more desperate than it truly is.

But that didn't happen. Somehow, he was standing on solid ground that looked anything but solid.

Îi dau de lucruu minÈ›ii È™i-mi am?gesc durerea A' mele suferinÈ›e îcerc s? mi le-nÈ™el!

Ii dau de lucru mintii si-ami amagesc durerea A' mele suferinte incerc sa mi le-nsel.

We belittle what we cannot bear. We make figments out of fundamentals, all in the name of preserving our own peculiar fancies. The best way to secure one's own deception is to accuse others of deceit.

Set aside your conviction," Moënghus said, "for the feeling of certainty is no more a marker of truth than the feeling of will is a marker of freedom. Deceived men always think themselves certain, just as they always think themselves free. This is simply what it means to be deceived.

Conviction, no matter how narcotic its depth, simply did not make true.

The eyes of men were but pinholes...All their books, even their scriptures, were nothing more than pinholes. And yet, because they couldn't see what was unseen, they assumed they saw everything, they confused pinpricks with the sky.