#illusion

Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers." (Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains.) ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#disillusionment #gilding #idols #touch #disappointment

I'm too old to know everything ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#humour #youthful-arrogance #arrogance

It should not be possible for Christians to be disillusioned. We should have no illusions in the first place. Our faith is in Jesus Christ alone. ↗

— Gene Edward Veith Jr.

#disillusionment #faith

To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation? ↗

— Pascal Mercier

#honesty #illusions #perception #personality #self-awareness

All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion. ↗

— Richard von Krafft-Ebing

#depair #depression #happiness #illusion #joy

Free zero-point energy doesn't exist in an illusion of freedom. ↗

— Toba Beta

#nothing-for-free #zero-point-energy #freedom

They're not even within 100 miles of Baghdad. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion... they are trying to sell to the others an illusion. ↗

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

#baghdad #even #hold #illusion #iraq

All order, I've come to understand, is theoretical, unreal — a harmless, sensible, smiling mask men slide between the two great, dark realities, the self and the world — two snake pits. ↗

— John Gardner

#order #reason #men

Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the elements which might be of the greatest importance to us and which have the task of solving the riddles of the universe and of reconciling us to the sufferings of life -- it is precisely those elements that are the least well authenticated of any. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#freud #future-of-an-illusion #religion #faith

There are two paths of which one may choose in the walk of life; one we are born with, and the one we consciously blaze. One is naturally true, while the other is a perceptive illusion. Choose wisely at each fork in the road. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#consciousness #illusions #life #natural #path