Quotes tagged Illusion

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“Thousands of years ago, a great darkness fell. The war between good and evil has ended. And it has ended with the complete triumph of evil and a total, irrevocable extermination of good. Evil is cunning — it quickly splits itself into two, into apparent good and evil, so that mankind is under the delusion that the great conflict is still raging and it will not go in search of the truth.”
The Illicit Happiness of Other People
“Rationalists think all god-men are frauds. That is the problem with rationalists. They are not rational enough. The world cannot be conned so easily by frauds. Great god-men are great because they really believe they are holy.”
The Illicit Happiness of Other People
“If the world is the myth of the senses, there is something pointless about all arts. Whom will you read, what will you write, what music will you listen to, what can move you, what can you adore when nothing is true?”
The Illicit Happiness of Other People
“The world is a charade created by a combination of senses.”
The Illicit Happiness of Other People
“Language was created by nature to guard its secrets, not to reveal them. We are trapped in language. Even thought has become language. That is what nature wants.”
The Illicit Happiness of Other People
“When you see reality you will not want to be a part of the syndicate of life. The purpose of the syndicate is to sustain itself, to exist forever in the minds of its organisms. Therefore, from the beginning of conscience, it has eliminated any neurological network that has the potential to see nature in its true form — by rewarding species that are delusional and by terminating those that are awakened.”
The Illicit Happiness of Other People
“The very purpose of nature, the evolutions it has managed through the vast ages, is to prevent a particular kind of neurological condition. It is as if the system of life is a devious force that does not want any organism to look too deep.”
The Illicit Happiness of Other People
“This is a world that is locked in the Folly of Two.”
The Illicit Happiness of Other People
“According to Unni, any philosophy that can be transmitted to another person is a delusion. If two people believe in the same idea of truth, it is a delusion.”
The Illicit Happiness of Other People
“To fool a person, it appears, you have to first fool yourself. That is at the heart of all human influences.”
The Illicit Happiness of Other People
“A delusion is many times more powerful than a lie. The distinction between a delusion and a lie is the very difference between a successful saint and a fraud.”
The Illicit Happiness of Other People
“The fundamental quality of a delusion is that it is contagious. The very purpose of every delusion is to transmit itself to other brains. That is how a delusion survives. On the other hand, truth can never be transmitted, truth can never travel from one brain to another. Movement is a quality of delusion alone.”
The Illicit Happiness of Other People
“The imaginative emotion which an idea, when vividly conceived, excites in us, is not an illusion but a fact, as real as any of the other qualities of objects.”
How to Think
A child’s experiment: One night when the moon was full, an older brother, about four, led his younger brother into the front garden and ordered him to walk back and forth. As little brother faithfully did so, big brother carefully observed him — and the moon. “I was trying to see if the moon follows him when he walks,” the older brother explained. “But it doesn’t, it only follows me.”
How to Think
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