1,027 Quotes About Illusion

Kitsch is not seeing something for what it is, but what you think it should be.

If nothing lasted and the world did not exist, all that meant was that reality was not fixed. The illusion she lived in was fluid and mutable, and could be easily altered by someone willing to rewrite the script of reality.

The obstacle in spritual growth is not ignorance of self, it is the illusion of self.

By identifying with a particular name that belongs to a particular body and mind, the self begins the process of creating a separate identity. Add in a complex jumble of ideas, beliefs, and opinions, along with some selective and often painful memories with which to create a past to identify with, as well as the raw emotional energy to hold it all together, and before you know it, you've got a very convincing - though divided - self.

[G]radually, skillfully, [Parmenides] conjures up the image of us humans as stuck at this place where the road divides—unable to decide between the two paths, incapable even of seeing what the choice involves, just dithering in the space in between.

The images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream in which the unity of that life can no longer be recovered. Fragmented views of reality regroup themselves into a new unity as a separate pseudoworld that can only be looked at. The specialization of images of the world evolves into a world of autonomized images where even the deceivers are deceived. The spectacle is a concrete inversion of life, an autonomous movement of the nonliving.

A Coy Aversion...a fluttertoo shyto be seen...

Most men, if not all, live in their illusions. To destroy this illusion is to deprive them of their happiness. In this context, we face a serious moral choice: whether to allow a person to live in illusion and be happy, or open his eyes and make him unhappy.

Knowledge of anything but concrete things stems from an illusion.