Quotes About Illusion

Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived.

The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told by an idiot mathematician.

The fact that most of us experience throughout most of our lives a sense of absence or distance from God is the great illusion that we are caught up in; it is the human condition. The sense of separation from God is real, but the meeting of stillness reveals that this perceived separation does not have the last word.

the paradox is that God must destroy in us, all illusions of righteousness before he can make us righteous

He who does not fear the truth should fear a lie and should worship an image or a phantom as God.

Seeing is not always believing.

It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.

Essere desiderati non è semplice. Non bisogna farsi illusioni: non siamo mai noi a essere desiderati, ma quello che l'altro immagina di noi e, spesso, quello che potrà servirgli a giustificare le proprie scelte esistenziali.

In a way, everyone was a Don Quixote, their heads alive with plots and characters, even if they didn't act on them directly.

Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.

The problem that is being addressed in this therapy is that the ego is mistaken for the self, when it is not

If you are actively believing in the reality of what you are seeing, you are caught in your ego.

Ich bin die Asche einer Glut, die ich nicht war.

Real life was not what everyone thought it was.

life was just a series of events, that was all, and you had no real power over it whatsoever. You just thought you did.

her face on. Eileen never looked natural, had never looked

Just because you see something doesn't mean it's really there.

Reality is just this game people play together, something their brain decides on, and the minute their brain gets iffy about reality, they realize everything they know about the world is just their own made-up version of it, and that would mean everyone is walking around in their own made-up world, all alone, and reality is just something we invent together to make us feel not so alone. It scares people when some of us check out of the game.

Did people come here to commit suicide? They were bound to. Cliffs, bridges, tall buildings, they were like an invitation. Just stand there, looking down, was to create an optical illusion of the ground rushing up to meet you.

A los hombres siempre les ha gustado mucho reunirse y discutir, y hacer ver que toman decisiones consensuadas que van a convertir el planeta en un lugar mejor. Luego viene la realidad, y les derrota.

Since she did not know the truth, she assumed a fashioned figure and prepared, with power and in beauty, a substitute for truth.

It is only that my illusion is more real to me than reality. And so do we often build our world on an error, and cry out that the universe is falling to pieces, if any one but lift a finger to replace the error by truth.

Love does not last forever, then?" "He asked me the same thing this morning," she said. "No, it does not - not love that has been betrayed. One realizes that one has loved a mirage, someone who never really existed. Not that love dies immediately or soon, even then. But it does die and cannot be revived.

They create desolation and call it peace There