Illusion Quotes - Page 8
Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion.
Georges Braque (1971). “Illustrated notebooks, 1917-1955”, Dover Pubns
The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself.
Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1977). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: The development of personality”
This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing.
"Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder". Book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2012.
There is the illusion of the world and the reality of the Torah.
Meir Kahane (1973). “Meir Kahane--writings (5732-33): Selected Writings by Meir Kahane from the Year 5732-33 (1971-73).”
Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.349, Jazzybee Verlag
The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free.
"Flesh and Fire". Book by Laura Anne Gilman, 2009.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1120, Library of America