A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.
The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.
Any mental activity is easy if it need not be subjected to reality.
Tonight, I've finally learned to tell fantasy from reality. And, knowing the difference, I choose fantasy.
Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from a horror show… I’d gladly settle for a false impression, If it would last a little longer, though.
You can blame your whole confusion on the fact that you bought illusion.
Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion.
A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
We live in a time like dreaming.... The edges of our lives flutter and change as we watch them. Listen to the dream.
In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.
If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality.
But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most... he saw fireflies where there were none.
It's a true image, born of a false spectacle.
Illusions... are simple facts, but they have been created by the mind, by the spirit, and they are one of the justifications of the new spatial configuration.
I hate deception, even where the imagination only is concerned.
Time is very weird.
It's just a figment of the imagination.
What is illusion? M.: To whom is the illusion? Find it out. Then illusion will vanish. Generally people want to know about illusion and do not examine to whom it is. It is foolish. Illusion is outside and unknown. But the seeker is considered to be known and is inside. Find out what is immediate, intimate, instead of trying to find out what is distant and unknown.
We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.
To visualize is to see what is not there, what is not real - a dream. To visualize is, in fact, to make visual lies. Visual lies, however, have a way of coming true.
So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality.
Action is thought tempered by illusion.
The architecture of my sister's thinking, now phantom. I fall down stairs that are nothing but air.
