Quotes About Illusion

Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream, And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by? ---On death

I have clung To nothing, lov'd a nothing, nothing seen Or felt but a great dream!

Forlorn! the very word is like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self! Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is famed to do, deceiving elf. Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley-glades: Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music:—do I wake or sleep?

There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away The comfortable green and juicy hay From human pastures; or, O torturing fact! Who, through an idiot blink, will see unpack'd Fire-branded foxes to sear up and singe Our gold and ripe-ear'd hopes.

Hence, pageant history! hence, gilded cheat! Swart planet in the universe of deeds!

The capacity for erroneous belief is very great, especially where it coincides with convenience.

The more real you get the more unreal the world gets.

So long ago, was it in a dream, was it just a dream?

They keep you doped with religion, and sex, and T.V. And you think you're so clever and classless and free But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see

Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see

Es tan ciego porque sólo ve lo que quiere ver.

Lako je živjeti zatvorenih o?iju, ne shva?aju?i ono što vidiš...

A form of self-delusion.

Culture and collars had gone together, to him, and he had been deceived into believing that college educations and mastery were the same things.

A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

This is important. Money on its most basic level is a hard fact - you either have it or you don't. But on it's emotional level it is purely a fiction. It becomes what you let it become.

What I've tried to do in my stage magic is to take a trick and give it an emotional hook.

When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

Every seeming equality conceals a hierarchy.

The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.

That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

We live in a world of thought, but we think we live in a world of external experience.