“The Little Man does not know that he is little, and he is afraid of knowing it. He covers up his smallness and narrowness with illusions of strength and greatness...” KnowsMenLittlesDoeKnowingGreatnessIllusionCover UpsLittle ManSmallness Author:Wilhelm Reich
“The more perfect our means of direct experience, the more easily we are caught by the dangerous illusion that perceiving is tantamount to knowing and understanding.” MeanUnderstandingPerfectKnowingDangerousIllusionDirectCaughtKnowing And Understanding Book:Film as Art Source: Film as Art
“A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of imporant things, it really would be a dangerous house of glass, scarcely to be handled carelessly. But everyday life was exactly like the headlines. And so everybody, knowing the meaninglessness of existence, sets the centre of his compass at his own home.” IfsMadeHomeWould BeHouseExistenceKnowingDangerousIllusionEverydayGlassesHolesTowersEveryday LifeCentreBricksCompassHeadlinesIllusoryMeaninglessness Book:The Woman in the Dunes Source: The Woman in the Dunes
“Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in our hands, but at leastin our thoughts where we may dispose of them at our whim, which gives us the illusion of power over them.” IfsThinkingKnowsGivingMayDoeHandsPowerKnowingIllusionThoughtfulOur ThoughtsWhim Author:Marcel Proust
“A lot of times, our guides are at the same level that we are at spiritually. We are their jobs, and they are growing through our life experiences. People have this illusion that their guides are all-knowing and all-wise, and why would we need God if we have our guides?” PeopleIfsNeedsJobsLevelsKnowingWiseOur LivesGrowingIllusionGuidesLife ExperienceNeed God Author:Echo Bodine