Quotes tagged Perception
15 quotes found
“Subtlety is not always a mask of mediocrity.”The Illicit Happiness of Other People
“The regular people, they are usually right, aren’t they? They know the ways of the world better because they are the world.”The Illicit Happiness of Other People
“The fate of shy people is that all their fears usually come true.”The Illicit Happiness of Other People
“The unfortunate are not as miserable as the world imagines. Urchins, the handicapped, orphans, prisoners and others are much happier than people think.”The Illicit Happiness of Other People
“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
“When you do not experience but accept a phenomenon, it is philosophy, which is a form of religion. But when you experience it, it is different. An experience is a plain fact, experience is truth.”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
“When you begin to see the world more clearly, what you first contradict are the very ideas that were once dear to you.”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
“People bind themselves into political teams that share moral narratives. Once they accept a particular narrative, they become blind to alternative moral worlds. Moral matrices bind people together and blind them to the coherence, or even existence, of other matrices.”How to Think
“The key to playing a really nasty character is to realize that in different circumstances you could be that person.”How to Think
