Quotes About Illusion

Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.

Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.

There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.

The future is not really the future. It's just a present that looks good.

Perfectionism is a perpetual flight into an illusory future that cannot be attained.

Memory creates a hallucination of the past, desire creates a hallucination of the future.

We must shed the illusion that we can deliberately 'create the future of mankind'

The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

We must shed the illusion that we can deliberately "create the future of mankind." This is the final conclusion of the forty years which I have now devoted to the study of these problems

Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.

It is impossible for you to take power over the future because it isn't even real...

Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present

To-morrow comes, true copy of to-day,And empty shadow of what is to be;Yet cheated Hope on future still depends,And ends but only when our being ends.

I mean, the nation in which we live - and the world in which we live - is so extraordinarily more like a future than the futures that we're being sold on the screen and on television.

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

For you and me today is all we have tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.

Universe is not a calm lake and therefore when you watch a calm lake you get a deceptive idea about the universe and you get a wrong perception of future!

Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to becomes master of your own destiny, you have more to learn.

I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. I laugh when I hear that people go on pilgrimage to find God.

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?

The sumptuous age of stars and images is reduced to a few artificial tornado effects, pathetic fake buildings, and childish tricks which the crowd pretends to be taken in by to avoid feeling too disappointed. Ghost towns, ghost people. The whole place has the same air of obsolescence about it as Sunset or Hollywood Boulevard.

Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.

Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.