Quotes About Illusion

Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed by the facts.

No matter how thin you slice it it's still baloney.

Marketing is essentially about feeding the poop back to diners fast enough to make them think they're still getting real food.

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

You can't stop a revolution from breathin', so to beat 'em they offer people the illusion of freedom.

Up is down, pleasure is pain, darkness is light, slavery is freedom, madness is sanity.

Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.

The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.

Freedom is from something. What are you to be free from? Obviously, you must be free from the person you take yourself to be, for it is the idea you have of yourself that keeps you in bondage.

There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom.

Are you still thinking, looking, living, as from an imaginary phenomenal centre? As long as you do that you can never recognise your freedom.

The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual.

Earthly possessions dazzle our eyes and delude us into thinking that they can provide security and freedom from anxiety. Yet all the time they are the very source of anxiety.

Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that's necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.

I'm an American who loves an America which doesn't exist, which is a land of freedom and free ideas.

Politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't.

There is an untroubled harmony in everything, a full consonance in nature; only in our illusory freedom do we feel at variance with it.

Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.

Ideology today is unfreedom which you sincerely personally experience as freedom.

The English people think they are free; they are greatly deceived; they are free only during the election of members of Parliament.

As I've said, freedom is really an illusion. Anytime we think we have a real choice, it just means we haven't seen the shotgun aimed at our navel.

For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.