Illusion - Quotes
The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.
Free will is an illusion. Our wills are simply not of our own making. Thoughts and intentions emerge from background causes of which we are unaware and over which we exert no conscious control. We do not have the freedom we think we have.
- A question, before you go. What is the truth?
- We place faith in ourselves. We see the world the way it really is and hope that one day all mankind might see the same.
- What is the world, then?
- An illusion. One of which can either submit to - like most do - or transcend.
- What is it to transcend?
- To recognize nothing is true and everything is permitted. That laws arise not from divinity, but reason. I understand now that our creed does not commend us to be free - it commends us to be wise.
Pain is an illusion of the senses, despair an illusion of the mind.
The greatest obstacle to knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge.
Life is like Friday on a soap opera. It gives you the illusion that everything is going to wrap up, and then the same old shit starts up on Monday.
The most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in it.
There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are interesting monologues, that is all.