Best ignorance & illusion Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Everything goes through the cycle of birth, growth, maturation, decay and death. But all of this is an illusion. Everything we see is an illusion.”

Growth Ignorance Birth Illusion Cycles Decay

Author:Frederick Lenz

“None of this has ever been or will ever be; all is an appearance, all is an illusion. Illusions are truth. All illusions are real. We say illusion, meaning that they're shadows.”

Real Ignorance Illusion Shadow Appearance Nothingness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Illusions are shadows moving endlessly across the ground. The shadows are quite real but they're shadows. They have very little substance.”

Littles Real Moving Ignorance Illusion Shadow Substance

Author:Frederick Lenz

“All the manifest forms of existence are but illusions. They are momentary displays of consciousness, flashes of lightening in the sky. They are there for a moment and then they are gone.”

Moments Form Existence Consciousness Gone Sky Ignorance Illusion Manifest Display Flash Momentary

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We fall into states of illusion - we forget all this. We get caught up in desires, frustrations, political movements, philosophies, religions, the getting of a living, the pain of a body, the pleasure of a body.”

States Philosophy Body Pain Political Desire Fall Forget Pleasure Movement Ignorance Illusion Caught Frustration Caught Up Political Movements

Author:Frederick Lenz

“At the moment you're suffering from what we call Maya. Maya is illusion. Maya is a Sanskrit word that suggests that we have forgotten. We've forgotten the purpose of life.”

Moments Purpose Suffering Ignorance Illusion Forgotten Purpose Of Life Sanskrit

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is illusion, the way you see things now, thinking that there is a tomorrow, there is a today, there is time and that there is life and death. Those are just appearances”

Thinking Way Today Ignorance Tomorrow Illusion Appearance Life And Death

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can be in a state of mind for a few seconds and forget that you were ever in any other state of mind. That's what we mean by illusion.”

Mind Mean States Forget Ignorance Illusion Seconds State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What gets frustrating for some people is the fact that you might get very high, but you find yourself pulled down again. There are forces of illusion or maya that cause us to make mistakes.”

People Facts Might Force Causes Mistake Ignorance Illusion Making Mistakes Finding Yourself Frustrating

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It's only illusions that destroy us. It's illusions that convince us that we can't. It's the illusions of the transient that tell us that all this matters.”

Matter Ignorance Illusion Convince Transient Convince Us

Author:Frederick Lenz

“An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time”

Ifs Ignorance Illusion Depth Blockheads

Book:No Compromise: Selected Writings of Karl Kraus

Source: No Compromise: Selected Writings of Karl Kraus

“The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.”

Progress Ignorance Illusion Western Great Men Aphorism Menace

Book:Cleopatra's Nose: Essays on the Unexpected

Source: Cleopatra's Nose: Essays on the Unexpected

“Do not feel that you are destined to enlightenment in this life. You have no idea. This is an illusion of selfhood. It's gross ignorance and egotism.”

Feels Ideas Ignorance Buddhism Enlightenment Illusion Buddhist This Life No Idea Destined Gross Etiquette Egotism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Science is a contemplative possession of reality through exclusion of all illusion, error and ignorance.”

Reality Ignorance Illusion Errors Possession Exclusion Contemplative

Author:Georges Canguilhem

“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”

Source: To Jerusalem and Back

“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.”

“For a man’s life would become intolerable, if he knew what was going to happen to him. He would be made aware of future evils, and would suffer their agonies in advance, while he would get no joy of present blessings since he would know how they would end. Ignorance is the necessary condition of human happiness, and it has to be admitted that on the whole mankind observes that condition well. We are almost entirely ignorant of ourselves; absolutely of others. In ignorance, we find our bliss; in illusions, our happiness.”

Ifs Knows Men Humans Wells Made Ends Whole Happens Would Be Joy Suffering Evil Know How Conditions Mankind Ignorance Blessing Illusion Ignorant Bliss Agony Human Happiness

Author:Anatole France

“The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.”

Earth Knowledge Atheism Ignorance Shapes Ocean Illusion Obstacles Discovering Continents Greatest Obstacles Knowledge And Ignorance Discovering Something

Author:Daniel J. Boorstin

“That the fundamental aspects of heredity should have turned out to be so extraordinarily simple supports us in the hope that nature may, after all, be entirely approachable. Her much-advertised inscrutability has once more been found to be an illusion due to our ignorance. This is encouraging, for, if the world in which we live were as complicated as some of our friends would have us believe we might well despair that biology could ever become an exact science.”

Source: The Physical basis of heredity

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