How much weight can carry a thought which does not acknowledge that it is an illusion?

People don’t care about being duped as long as they’re happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence ‘self-duprication’ becomes a habit.

What to wear: An employee chooses. How to dress: His employer chose.

Facebook gives people an illusory sense of being LIKED.

I can never feel that the Illusion of Life is a truth as long as any illusion reflects unreality; however, even an untruth is a truth in its turn.

Tomorrow is an illusion suggesting that another chance always exists. It is a dangerously false illusion.

Words, with their multiple meanings and nuances are like trees and oral communication like a forest. Trees are good for hiding, forest for losing the path. When one is trying to contemplate the horizon of...

The present is the closest that you will ever get to the future.

In some languages (Hindi is one), every perception is called “seeing”. Maybe, the trick is to rely on the eyes less and less as one perceives more and more.

Perhaps the universe is a big fat consciousness and the matter is just an illusion.

They faced each other at opposite ends of an illusion.

Don’t believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that – thoughts.

A thick rivulet of lost blood reflects a city that will mourn but never die.

It is the illusion of magic and the magic of illusion that we are primarily interested in- not the privy tricks or the key to the secrets themselves. We seek the bafflement, the contradictions, the...

I planted a plastic plant, but nothing grew but political hope. I watered it with the tears of the voters.

If we choose to, we can live in a world of comforting illusions. We can allow ourselves to be deceived by false realities. Or we can use them to hide our true intentions.

The dial of the clock wears out unevenly; Most worn Is the area round eight. As it is stared at with abrasive glancesunfailingly twice a day, It is weathered away. On the other side The...

The nostalgia of a moment’s love can be an illusionary precipice from which we fall from truth; in heartbreak, what we escape to in the past is what tortures us in the present.

…for if a woman’s body can attract the holy angels, how much more the unholy man.

Looking aroundthere is nothing but illusionEverything is drownedin the oceans of illusion

As much as love is the source of power for those who are centred in their hearts, as much fear is the source of illusionary power for those who insist on being led by their...

[On Schopenhauer in Black and White] Schopenhauer’s views of love are flawed. Love can’t be merely an illusion of the mind to aid in procreation, but the path to redemption for an otherwise violently selfish...

Break an Illusion, and you open the eyes of the intelligent.

The desert and the ocean are realms of desolation on the surface.The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust.The ocean is a place of skin, rich...

There is no real magic, only tricks” but a great magician compel people not to trust that belief and make them believe, after all “There does exist a real magic”.

We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.

Right now, in this dusty anti-paradise, I have absolutely no hand in the future at all.

It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside are saying about him and, in result, irrationally and fearfully, and sometimes angrily, fancy himself a villain.

That’s the whole burden of this novel – the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world that you don’t care whether things are true or false as long as they partake...

Tu n’as rien appris, sinon que la solitude n’apprend rien, que l’indifférence n’apprend rien: c’était un leurre, une illusion fascinante et piégée. Tu étais seul et voilà tout et tu voulais te protéger: qu’entre le...

If you believe that you are NOT omnipresent, omniscient and ultimately omnipotent – you are delusional. If you believe that you are separate from that which you call God, then you are living a lie.

I have seen a face with a thousand countenances, and a face that was but a single countenance as if held in a mould. I have seen a face whose sheen I could look through...

Nobody likes the phenomenon of death, and death hates the phenomenon of life

Some people aren’t really light-teethed; they’re merely dark-skinned.

When your heart truly adores somebody, your mind perceives a halo on that man’s head.

Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored...

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

Everyone has gods. You just don’t think they’re gods.

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

America is a nation of illusions; illusions in the media, schools and government — an iron curtain of propaganda.

You’ve done her a service to teach her that romantic love is largely made of illusion.” [said Mina.] “Is it?” Alessandra asked, unable to suppress a worried sigh. Mina looked at her as if she...

If I owned a retail store, I’d keep my shelves empty, so it appeared my product was so popular it was always sold out. Of course, I’d make no sales because I’d have no product...

When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you? The two are so, so different. One is an...

Everybody talks about freedom, citizens,” the big man said gently, seeming to draw upon that very sure source of personal knowledge again, “but they dont really want it. Half of them wants it but the...

You lost your ability to choose the moment you started to use your eyes to see, and your heart to feel. Choice has become nothing but an illusion for you.

OPTICAL ILLUSIONPolitical correctnessKamil Ali

Dreams aren’t only an illusion to put you into a subconsciously pleasurable state of mind for the time being, but also a pathway to gain complete contentment.

A push-up bra is to a woman’s chest … what ‘breathing-in’ is to a man’s stomach.

I can fight with a real problem. But I cannot solve the ignorance. I cannot solve the illusion of your mind.

He then explained his new philosophy, which followed the devastating discovery that Love and Friendship were the veriest illusions. He explained that people married because their sexual appetite had to be satisfied and there must...