1,027 Quotes About Illusion

\ Who can know the absolute truth of illusion or emptiness? That is why we feel the fulfilled sense of this world.

Certain emotional influences such as peer pressure or extreme fear can cause us to alter our worldviews and change what we accept as normal. That’s what the political technique of the Overton window is all about. Create a crisis and move the window of how much freedom people are willing to do without. That’s how governments, schools, and personal relationships become oppressive.

Ništa u stvarnom svijetu nije toliko divno koliko iluzije osobe koja gubi razum.

The truth is we're all dying, the lie is we're all living.

But it was all a lie,” the Little Light says. “It was all an illusion.

If everyone had seen through everything, if everyone had "understood," history would have ceased long since. But we are fundamentally, biologically unsuited to "understand." And even if everyone understood except for one, history would be perpetuated because of that one, because of his blindness. Because of a single illusion!

What an amateur is, is a lover of a subject. I’m a lover of facts. The fact is the savior, as long as you don’t jam it into some preconceived pattern. The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance—it is the illusion of knowledge.

Things are often not what they seem. And then, sometimes they are. The trick is to learn what is real.

Movement is the illusion created by the extremely fast, involuntary comparison of what is with what was.