Quotes About Illusion

el orgullo del que se sabe en posesión del mundo verdadero, del que sabe que precisamente la nada, la muerte y la putrefacción, las ruinas y las heces y la mugre, el sufrimiento y las atrocidades son la verdad, que el mundo es un infierno en el que florece el moho precario del paraíso, ilusorio como la pelusa de un diente de león.

Tr?im într-o puÈ™c?rie fermec?toare, nu mai puÈ›in magic? decât orice ne putem închipui.

Erano in fondo a un oceano e le stelle non erano altro che riflessi delle onde sotto la luna di un altro mondo.

caci abia acum se vadea ceea ce toti presimtisera intr-un moment sau altul al vietii lor: ca realitatea e doar un caz particular al irealului, si ca suntem totii, oricat de concreti ne-am simti, doar fictiunea cine stie carei alte lumi, ce ne creeaza si ne cuprinde ...

C?ut?m prosteÈ™te, c?ut?m în locuri în care nu e nimic de g?sit, ca p?ianjenii ce-È™i È›es plasa în s?li de baie în care nicio musc?, niciun È›ânÈ›ar nu poate p?trunde.

Despair . . . is the only cure for illusion. Without despair we cannot transfer our allegiance to reality—it's a kind of mourning period for our fantasies. Some people do not survive this despair, but no major change within a person can occur without it. —PHILIP SLATER, Earthwalk

A man who saw has turned blind, A hearer deaf, A leader now leads astray!

Is it wrong to trust in a beautiful lie if it helps you get through life?

Of all the get-rich-quick magnates that have operated, Ponzi is the king.

Saying you have something that you don't makes it yours. Saying you don't have something you do makes it go away.

The thing which you see, feel or touch is not real but an illusion.

Como escribió Gabriel García Márquez después de conocer al líder venezolano en una reunión especial que a tal fin convocó Fidel Castro: «Me estremeció la inspiración de que había viajado y conversado a gusto con dos hombres opuestos. Uno, a quien la suerte empedernida le ofrecía la oportunidad de salvar a su país. Y el otro, un ilusionista que podía pasar a la historia como un déspota más».

MADAME PERNELLE. My dear, appearances are oft deceiving, And seeing shouldn't always be believing.

Appearances can deceive the keenest mind. Remember my example, and be wise: When things look simple, don't believe your eyes.

And self-conceit leads straight to self-deceit.

But how a man like you, who looks so wise And wears a moustache of such splendid size, Can be so foolish as to...

All right, then: I'm deluded and I'm blind.   CLITANDRE

Cl. In short, we ought to be blind throughout this play, and pretend not to see anything in it. Ur. We ought not to see what is not there.

My Lord Jupiter knows how to sugarcoat the pill.

Do you think we've got control of everything here, because this place is small and simple and we're in charge of it? It's so obvious we're in control, I guess we may have forgotten we're not in control. And I wonder if those people on the Earth, because it was so clear they weren't in control, forgot that they were.

She touched his hand for the last time. "Oh, Karim, that we have already done. But always there was a problem between us. How can I explain? I wasn't me, and you weren't you. From the very beginning to the very end, we didn't see things. What we did--we made each other up." p. 382

I watched the moon through the window. It was a beautiful, floating illusion of a still point in the universe. Dark shadows passed over the plains, mountains and water.

We have come to mistake information for knowledge.

0.00000001% of what's happened in the world, but maybe 80% of how you think the world works