Deepak Chopra Quotes

As far as I can see, it's not important that we have free will, just as long as we have the illusion of free will to stop us going mad.

Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

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

What we want is not freedom but its appearances.

The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.

I didn't put you in a prison, Evey. I just showed you the bars.

Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

Seeing is not always believing.

The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.

In every story of solipsism, there is always a conspiracy. Why? Because there is always a background involved in every perception.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

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

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

Truth is always a delusion.

As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.

No one who lives in error is free.

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

Belief and seeing: They are both often wrong.

Reality has a way of intruding upon illusion.