“People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool's caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else's are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldLyingFoolIllusionRidiculousExceptionYellowLampsTransparentCapsRosyOpaqueMiddlemarch Book:Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“You know how in football, guys throw defenses, and the defense throws you a look, but the look is not really what it is - it's only made to fool you. It's the same thing with drugs. The drug is only an illusion to draw you in.” KnowsLooksMadeGuyKnow HowFootballFoolDrugDrawsIllusionDefense Author:Rick Ross
“Science is the art of creating suitable illusions which the fool believes or argues against, but the wise man enjoys for their beauty or their ingenuity, without being blind to the fact that they are human veils and curtains concealing the abysmal darkness of the unknowable” MenBelieveHumansArtFactsEnjoyDarknessWiseFoolCreatingIllusionBlindArguingVeilsCurtainsIngenuitySuitableConcealing Author:Carl Jung
“I don't want to fool people. If I wanted to do that, I would be working with virtual reality. I want to operate on the other level, the other end of the illusion spectrum. I want to create the worst possible illusions so it doesn't really fool people, but instead give people a measure of their own belief. It makes them aware of how much they need to be fooled in order to understand the world around them.” PeopleIfsWorldWantNeedsGivingEndsRealityWould BeWantedOrderBeliefLevelsWorstFoolIllusionSpectrumFooledVirtual Reality Author:Vik Muniz
“...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.” MenGivingTryingMaySaidMomentsMightRememberDesireForgetFieldsFoolVictoryBattleDespairIllusionBreathsPhilosopherConquerFollyNow And ThenForget ItFuryMausoleum Author:William Faulkner
“Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.” ShouldMindFirstsBelieveHumansTwoFoolLimitsIllusionMadInstanceHuman MindFutility Book:Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man Source: Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man