reality and illusion Quotes

What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.

Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly...

It's hard to tell that the world we live in is either a reality or a dream.

How can mirrors be real if our eyes aren't real?

All life is a dream, and all dreams are dreams.

Politics and the economy are not things that exist, or illusions, or ideologies. They are things that do not exist and yet which are inscribed in reality and fall under a regime of truth dividing the true and the false.

Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.

If all be a Dream, then he doth but dream that he makes the Question; and so it is not much matter that a waking Man should answer him.

A fierce brief fusion which dreamers call real, and realists, an illusion; an insight like the flight of birds.

A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty—and, by which definition, a philosopher—dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security.