#illusion

When my mind plays tricks on me I can deal. But when my mind plays tricks on my mind I can not tell what's real ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#illusion #mania #manic #mental-illness #reality

Tradition is the illusion of permanance. ↗

— Woody Allen

#tradition

Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world. ↗

— Sai Baba

#false #full #ideals #illusion #influenced

A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion. ↗

— Sai Baba

#back #becomes #built #foundations #ground

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#bravely #childish #desires #god #harbor

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#albeit #illusion #merely #persistent #reality

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#feeling #illusions #live #person

Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own: under the influence of music I have the illusion of feeling things I don't really feel, of understanding things I don't understand, being able to do things I'm not able to do (...) Can it really be allowable for anyone who feels like it to hypnotize another person, or many other persons, and then do what he likes with them? Particularly if the hypnotist is the first unscrupulous individual who happens to come along? ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#illusions #music #psychology #music

You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values. ↗

— Peter Abrahams

#culture #each #given #his #history

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#illusion #lunchtime #time