Quotes about Illusion

Students present themselves...like a succession of CDs whose shimmering surface gives no clue to their contents without the equipment to play them.

Death is easily fooled. If the churches don't work, a filter will do.

In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.

Earthly possessions dazzle our eyes and delude us into thinking that they can provide security and freedom from anxiety. Yet all the time they are the very source of anxiety.

We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.

I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.

You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig.

I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.

the paradox is that God must destroy in us, all illusions of righteousness before he can make us righteous

The Law dispels all self-illusions. It puts the fear of God in a man. Without this fear there can be no thirst for God's mercy. God accordingly uses the Law for a hammer to break up the illusion of self- righteousness, that we should despair of our own strength and efforts at self-justification.