Thandie Newton Quotes

The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.

If you are delusional, sometimes the reality catches up with your delusion, and then all of a sudden you are a genius.

Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn't investigated. They might find that I don't really exist - that I'm just a hologram.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

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?

I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.

We are one of only three species on our planet that can claim to be self-aware, yet self-delusion may be a more significant characteristic of our kind.

The boundary line between self and external world bears no relation to reality; the distinction between ego and world is made by spitting out part of the inside, and swallowing in part of the outside.

The two biggest self-deceptions of all are that life has a 'meaning'and each of us is unique.

For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling me increases. Somewhere they live, somewhere they multiply. I alone do not exist.

We are what we seem to be.

You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion.

We forget that the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the sun and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it.

Memory is a dead thing. Memory is not truth and cannot ever be, because truth is always alive, truth is life; memory is persistence of that which is no more. It is living in ghost world, but it contains us, it is our prison. In fact it is us. Memory creates the knot, the complex called the I and the ego

I can't tell if she's actually real, or if she's stopped caring if she's real or not. Or is not caring what makes a person real?

We project our ideas about ourselves into the heavens and call them ideas about God.

The physical body is conceived and constructed in consciousness as are time and space. All happens within our self.

But we are such deceivers that we will not look at ourselves in relationship, because there the real face can be seen. So we close our eyes to relationship, and we go on thinking that something is going to be seen inside. You cannot see anything inside.

The outer world is a reflection of our inner selves.

Because there is no man who can be true and just judge of himself, so much will self-love deceive him.

In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference.

You appreciate that it is very easy to die and you have to arrange your life to cope with that reality.

The problem is we think we exist.

What if reality is nothing but some disease?

We usually think of ourselves as sitting the driver's seat, with ultimate control over the decisions we made and the direction our life takes; but, alas, this perception has more to do with our desires-with how we want to view ourselves, than with reality.