Hallucinations Quotes

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Everything is perception. A hallucination is a perception of a certain reality. It is a perception of a certain state of mind. — Frederick Lenz
When I was a kid, I used to see apparitions and have hallucinations, and my entire perception of the world was badly disoriented. And I… — Jim Woodring
I prefer hallucinations cause they tend to make more sense than experience. — Todd Rundgren
There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of a Milton is that he functions as a… — H. L. Mencken
A vision, without a plan, is just a hallucination. — Will Rogers
Everything that you are or conceive of yourself as being is just an idea. It's an illusion. It's a hallucination. — Frederick Lenz
The ten thousand states of mind are hallucinatory. Hallucinations are real. Dreams are real. But there are some things more real. — Frederick Lenz
Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts. — William Gibson
It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions… — H. L. Mencken
A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it. — Bertrand Russell
Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination. — George Bernard Shaw
If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss. — Marguerite Young
Hallucinations are bad enough. But after awhile you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife… — Hunter S. Thompson
Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder. — Flann O'Brien
There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made â€“ at best they manage to emerge, from… — Thomas Pynchon
Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations — Aleister Crowley
Look at him now, poor fellow. That's what a dose of reality does for you...Never touch the stuff myself, you understand. Find it gets in… — Alan Moore
I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination. — Alan Watts
It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen here" -- that one's own… — John Wyndham
The Photograph is an extended, loaded evidence â€” as if it caricatured not the figure of what it represents (quite the converse) but its very… — Roland Barthes

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