Quotes about Illusion

And if you are already flying upside down and don't know it, your cleverness will do you little good.

We are required to "bet our life" that the visible world, while real, is not reality itself.

The "Western" segment of the church today lives in a bubble of historical illusion about the meaning of discipleship and the gospel. We are dominated by the essentially Enlightenment values that rule American culture: pursuit of happiness, unrestricted freedom of choice, disdain of authority.

The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.

The only time Tol's clothes looked good was before he put them on.

I seemed to be lying neither asleep nor awake looking down a long corridor of gray half light where all stable things had become shadowy paradoxical all I had done shadows all I had felt suffered taking visible form antic and perverse mocking without relevance inherent themselves with the denial of the significance they should have affirmed thinking I was I was not who was not was not who.

how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice...

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.

Victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

So this is love. I see. I was wrong about it too', thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

Because always,' he thinks, 'when anything gets to be a habit, it also manages to get a right good distance away from truth and fact.