Raoul Vaneigem Quotes

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in it.

Believing that things happen too slowly or too quickly is an illusion. Timing is perfect.

Life always is now, but the form the now takes changes continuously. Most people equate the form the now takes with the now itself, and so they believe there are many different moments.

There are optical illusions in time as well as space.

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.

We don't attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to be true in the moment.

Time flies when you are anxious!

We believe what we see.’...What do you do when you’re in the dark?

Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing.

We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time. It takes a good deal of time to eat or to sleep, or to earn ahundred dollars, and a very little time to entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the light of our life.

You know how it is when you’re walking up the stairs, and you get to the top, and you think there’s one more step? I’m like that all the time.

Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.

What people believe prevails over the truth.

A fear is just a lie that you've rehearsed so many times you believe it's true.

He who truly believes he has a hangover has no hangover.

Fairy's side note: Even people who don't believe in magic really do.

In the hours without sleep, each moment is so full and so vacant that it suggests itself as a rival of Time.

I think people are more apt to believe photographs, especially if it’s something fantastic. They’re willing to be more gullible. Sometimes they want fantasy. Even if they know it’s fake they can believe anything. People are accustomed to being told what to believe in.

Entertainment has seduced us into believing that we have a chance to live the life they live in the movies. Even the people in the movies don't live that life. It doesn't take 135 minutes to make a life, it takes almost a century. Everything doesn't depend on what happens in the next ninety seconds. Ever.

Because you continue to inhabit and believe your metaphors, you cannot see what is true.

Some guys-a lot of guys-don't believe what they are seeing, especially if it gets in the way of what they want to eat or drink or believe. Me, I don't believe in God. But if i saw him, I would. I wouldn't just go around saying, "Jesus, that was a great special effect." The definition of an asshole is a guy who doesn't believe what he's seeing.

Delusion: belief said to be false by someone who does not share it.

The rules of magic, my dear, are best not discusses. For once we understand the illusion, we no longer believe it.