Quotes About Illusion

Even an E-type Jaguar looks merely flash beside a really smart pony and trap.

It is sometimes hard to recognized real love. So much nonsense it talk about love and so much nonsense is written about it that it is sometimes hard to recognize the real thing.

Fiksie verg nou eenmaal 'n gedeeltelike verdoeseling of vervalsing van feite, anders is dit nie meer fiksie nie.

In no way did I allow reality as it was to intrude on reality as I wanted it to be.

Every Anglophile has his own private England which is, of course, unrecognizable to the English.

but writing as "Lewis Carroll," had Alice go through the looking

The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are.

Reality changes words far more than words can ever change reality.

Imagine someone in a skeleton costume. The costume is innocuous inasmuch as it is mere fantasy of dead bones over a living body of flesh. But, of course, there is a skeleton beneath that living body of flesh. Just as the skeleton is a costume over the flesh, the flesh is a costume over the skeleton. Flesh dies and reveals the skeleton, as if the skeleton is the death to come that is already inside the living flesh.

Scientific objectivity is one of our most deeply held, and crippling, illusions.

you're not going to find true love in the personals.

Perceiving is believing. Misperceiving is deceiving— And worse yet, prevents achieving.

Perceiving is believing. Misperceiving is deceiving— And worse yet, prevents achieving. The

Satan is the great 'I am not'; and he is never happier than when he has convinced people that he is non-existent.

The truth, which should be apparent to anyone with a vaguely cynical soul, is that 3-D will always be the past, and is only being rammed down our throats as something excitingly 'new' right now because it is much harder to pirate 3-D films than good old flat ones. Big Hollywood studios want you to believe in 3-D because they want to carry on believing in their own bank accounts. It has nothing to do with 'the future' of cinema, merely the future of film finance.

who was sitting here before him in full flesh and makeup.

At some level, people must be thinking that the more they learn about what is predetermined, the more control they will have. This is an illusion. Human beings want to feel that they are on a power walk into the future, when in fact we are always just tapping our canes on the pavement in the fog.

It would be easy to laugh this off were it not so obviously counterproductive. The idea that tackling climate change means accepting profound levels of intrusion into our everyday lives – and the economic disaster of dramatic drops in consumption and living standards – is an illusion that is actually shared by the Green left and the libertarian right.

every night and was just about to miss the Metroliner—but only Joel recognized him. A forgotten nebbish who seriously thought for a little while he might be president. What was it like, to have had that dream obliterated, so long ago, and then go on living? Did he sometimes fall into it again, a little spurt of Possibilitase tricking him into imagining that maybe next year he would …

Man owns nothing, never will, though he holds on to illusions of such, in the end he finds what is left-character and integrity. And if none be found was he truly here? By Mark Miller

Artificial pleasures arrive stillborn; they have no life of their own.

This is one of the problems with reality: the extent to which it resembles bad fiction.

defines a media-created "reality" whether or not it has a basis in true reality, around which individuals organize their thoughts, beliefs, and, in some cases, their lives.

Phaedrus: 'They will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome, having the reputation of knowledge without the reality?' "6