Illusion Quotes

"Career is the thing that fools you into thinking you are the person you are pretending to be" "Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth." "What men call knowledge is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances" "The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant" "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream" "There is no truth Only perception" "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." "We have confused the real and the extraordinary to the point where we no longer know which is which" "Appearances are often deceiving" "It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise." "The man who looks for security even in the mind is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble" "Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow" "The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist" "What is real and what is true are not necessarily the same" "When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness" "The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in" "The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is" "That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it" "The reason they call it the American Dream is because you have to be asleep to believe it" "It’s called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it"