Jason Calacanis Quotes

Truth is always a delusion.

I'm so grateful for my endless delusion.

The world being illusive, one must be deluded in some way if one is to triumph in it.

What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?

Insanity is believing your hallucinations are real. Religion is believing that other peoples' hallucinations are real.

The problem with being nuts, she thought, is that you don't always feel as if you're nuts. Sometimes, in fact, you feel perfectly sane, and there just happens to be a trailer-shaped dragon crouching in the lot next door.

Illusions are hazardous, and so are disillusions.

The relationship between the imagined and the real is more complicated than people imagine.

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

People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

He had delusions of adequacy.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most 'familiarity' is meditated and delusive.

One is always considered mad, when one discovers something that others cannot grasp.

He suffers from delusions of adequacy.

Our delusions of omniscience play a role in our ideas of not only what we want but also what we want to escape.

How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.

Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions.

Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!

This clarity made me able to behave normally, which posed some interesting questions. Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act? If some people didn't see these things, what was the matter with them? Were they blind or something? These questions had me unsettled.

The fictional eye sees in, through, and around what is really there.

If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality.

that expression you get in your eyes when you are very tired and everything is like a dream and you are starting to know what things are like underneath what people say they are.

There is no need to create. Genius comes only to those who know how to use their eyes and their intelligence.