“ He had entered another imaginative world, one connected to the beginning of his life as a writer, to the Napoleonic world that had been a lifelong metaphor for the power of art, for the empire of his… Fred Kaplan
“ Note for a moment do I take you for a truth that is real,' Ivan exclaimed in what even amounted to fury. 'You are a falsehood, you are my illness, you are a ghost. Only I do not know how to destroy yo… Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“ Sometimes, when one is moving silently through such an utterly desolate landscape, an overwhelming hallucination can make one feel that oneself, as an individual human being, is slowly being unraveled… Haruki Murakami
“ Some people brag about standing for something so hard and so much, that they do not realize that they are actually sitting. Justin K. McFarlane Beau
“ Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are? William Golding
“ The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest t… William Hazlitt
“ Osiris, to go directly to the important part of this, was not a dying god, not life caught in the spell of death, or a dead god, as modern interpreters have said. He was the hallucinated voice of a de… Julian Jaynes
“ Let's Look at Subjective Religious Experiences This Way:What if ten thousand people went up to a mountain top, saw something, and then they all disagreed with what they saw, even people who largely ag… John W. Loftus
