Quotes About Illusion

This definition, which sounds like the opposite of Brahman being the whole universe, is actually identical to brahman being the whole universe, because—in this way of looking at it—everything in the phenomenal universe is an illusion, including your separate self.

Unlike normal photographs, every small fragment of a piece of holographic film contains all the information recorded in the whole.

Uzun vadede illizyonlara ba?l? kalmak, gerçek olgularla yüzle?mekten çok daha tehlikelidir. Bohm

Bütün dünyam?z?n ve bar?nd?rd??? her ?eyin, yaln?zca ba?ka bir gerçeklik düzeyinden yans?t?lan hayaletimsi imgeler olabilece?i konusunda baz? kan?tlar vard?r.

Gözler görme organlar? olabilir, ama as?l görme i?i beynin görevidir.

There is nothing wrong with appearances, so long as we realize that that is what they are (this will always be a leading motif in Nietzsche's work).

He lifted his shirt, and on his back was the White Rabbit, wearing his waistcoat and looking at his watch. It was just like the illustration from the book. Only standing next to him, back-to-back, was another White Rabbit wearing a leather motercycle jacket and boots and smoking a cigar.

Daniel Kahneman, who was the first psychologist to win the Nobel Prize in Economics (see my podcast episode #212), attributed market manias to investors' illusion of control, calling the illusion prospect theory. He studied the intellectual underpinnings of investing—how traders estimate odds and calculate risks—to prove how often people act from the mistaken belief they know more than they do.

He is—and this is a fundamental entrepreneurial talent—a master illusionist. It's the essential entrepreneurial skill, to convince people you are what you have yet to become.

Trump's entire world was construed from what he saw on television.

It was all too possible that the hardly plausible would lead to the totally credible.

He spoke obliviously and happily, believing himself to be a perfect pitch raconteur and public performer, while everyone with him held their breath.

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right…. We sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

Il n'y a pas d'amour dans la liberté individuelle, dans l'indépendance, c'est tout simplement un mensonge, et l'un des plus grossiers qui puisse se concevoir; il n'y a d'amour que dans le désir d'anéantissement, de fusion, de disparition individuelle, dans une sorte comme on disait autrefois de sentiment océanique, dans quelque chose qui de toute façon était, au moins dans un futur proche, condamné.

Adolescent, Michel croyait que la souffrance donnait à l'homme une dignité supplémentaire. Il devait maintenant en convenir: il s'était trompé. Ce qui donnait à l'homme une dignité supplémentaire, c'était la télévision.

The map is more interesting than the territory.

No temáis a la felicidad: no existe.

El amor como inocencia y como capacidad de ilusión, como aptitud para resumir el conjunto del otro sexo en un solo ser amado, rara vez resiste un año de vagabundeo sexual, y nunca dos.

the path that those girls made us take was entirely fallacious, I should add that it was raining', as Nerval probably wrote somewhere; I hadn't often thought about Nerval lately, but he had hanged himself at the age of forty-six, and Baudelaire too had died at that age; it isn't an easy one.

Qui moétais-je pour avoir cru que je pouvais changer quelque chose au mouvement du monde ?

Bruno tenía razón, el amor paterno era una ficción, una mentira. Una mentira es útil cuando permite transformar la realidad, pensó; pero cuando la transformación fracasa sólo queda la mentira, la amargura y la conciencia de la mentira

Al considerar el pasado siempre se tiene la impresión — probablemente falsa — de un cierto determinismo.

If life is an illusion it's a pretty painful one.

Cine doarme este un alienat care se crede mort.