„“Did you experience hallucinations or illusions?”
“What’s the difference?”
“An illusion is a misreading of actual sensory data, while a hallucination is seeing something that isn’t there.”“

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— Michael Swanwick, libro Stations of the Tide

Fuente: Stations of the Tide (1991), Chapter 7, “Who Is the Black Beast?” (p. 109)

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Michael Swanwick

escritor de ciencia ficción estadounidense 1950

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„We're hallucinating. And that's what this world is: a mass hallucination, where fear seems more real than love. Fear is an illusion. Our craziness, paranoia, anxiety and trauma are literally all imagined.“

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— Marianne Williamson American writer 1952

Fuente: A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

„We hallucinate sounds more often than sights. There are auditory mirages, which vanish without trace; auditory illusions that turn out to be something other than they seemed; and, of course, voices that speak to saints, seers, and psychotics, telling them how to act and what to believe.“

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— Diane Ackerman, libro A Natural History of the Senses

Fuente: A Natural History of the Senses (1990), Chapter 4 “Hearing” (p. 180)

„The proximate goal of all perception is what we can get our hands upon. If we traverse the distance that separate us from that which we see or hear and find nothing for the hand to manipulate, the experience is an illusion or a hallucination. The world of perceptual reality, the world of physical things, is the world of our contacts and our manipulations, and the distance experience of the eye and the ear means first of all these physical things. Physical things are not only the meaning of what we see and hear; they are also the means we employ to accomplish our ends.“

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— George Herbert Mead American philosopher, sociologist, and psychologist 1863 - 1931

George Herbert Mead (1926). "The Nature of Aesthetic Experience." International Journal of Ethics, Vol. 36, No. 4 (Jul., 1926), pp. 382-393; p. 382

„The question posed most often is: How do you know you aren't dreaming, that what you experience is nothing more than a vivid dream or a hallucination of some sort?“

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— Robert Monroe American founder of The Monroe Institute 1915 - 1995

Journeys Out of the Body (1971), Chapter 14. Mind and Supermind

„“What was the Depression?”
“Bad economic times in their pure capitalist nation-state,” Aenea said. “Remember, the economy wasn’t really global then, and it depended upon private money institutions called banks, gold reserves, and the value of physical money—actual coins and pieces of paper that were supposed to be worth something. It was all a consensual hallucination, of course, and in the 1930s, the hallucination turned nightmare.”“

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— Dan Simmons, libro El ascenso de Endymion

Fuente: The Rise of Endymion (1997), Chapter 2 (p. 34)

„People who pass from stage two hallucination to stage three often experience a sensation of a vortex or rotating tunnel around them, and soon have hallucinations filled with iconic images, not just signs. …It is here that "monsters" appear, part human, part beast, known as therianthropes.“

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— Richard Leakey Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist, and politician 1944

Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human (1992)

„“What is a ‘hunch’?”
“Eh? It’s a belief that something is so, or isn’t so, without evidence.”
“I’d call a hunch the result of automatic reasoning below the conscious level on data you did not know you possessed.”“

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— Robert A. Heinlein, libro The Puppet Masters

Fuente: The Puppet Masters (1951), Chapter 28 (p. 149)

„Do you see law and order? There is nothing but disorder, and instead of law there is the illusion of security. It is an illusion because it is built on a long history of injustices: racism, criminality, and the genocide of millions. Many people say it is insane to resist the system, but actually, it is insane not to.“

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— Mumia Abu-Jamal Prisoner, Journalist, Broadcaster, Author, Activist 1954

Death Blossoms (2004, South End Press; Cambridge MA), p. 11

„Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don't know the difference.
George: No, but we must carry on as though we did.
Martha: Amen.“

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— Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Fuente: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

„If the theme is simple, you can include a hundred details that create the illusion of actuality better.“

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— Satyajit Ray Indian author, poet, composer, lyricist, filmmaker 1921 - 1992

In Quotations by 60 Greatest Indians, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology http://resourcecentre.daiict.ac.in/eresources/iresources/quotations.html,

„Isn’t a miserable reality better than the most interesting illusion? Or is it illusion, Barney? I don’t know anything about philosophy; you explain it to me because all I know is religious faith and that doesn’t equip me to understand this.“

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— Philip K. Dick, libro The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

Fuente: The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965), Chapter 8 (p. 143)

„In fact, the whole idea of illusion seems to make sense only if we accept the reality of the illusory experience as an experience and question only what it seems to be telling us about the outside world. Optical illusions do really hapen. What they can’t do is provide accurate measurements of the outside world. The idea of having, so to speak, two successive layers of illusion here is unworkable.“

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— Mary Midgley British philosopher and ethicist 1919 - 2018

Are You an Illusion (2014). 27.

„We sleep when we fall. We only sleep when we can’t move anymore. That’s juvenile. But it means everything. It’s the illusion of progress. Staying awake isn’t progress. The illusion is enough.“

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— Dave Eggers memoirist, novelist, short story writer, editor, publisher 1970

You Shall Know Our Velocity! (2002)

„It is something that gives people an illusion of illimitable power, and it is, in some ways, responsible for all our troubles — this, what you might call technical arrogance, that overcomes people when they see what they can do with their minds.“

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— Freeman Dyson theoretical physicist and mathematician 1923

As quoted in The Day After Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb (1981), a documentary film directed by Jon Else, written by David Peoples, Janet Peoples, and Jon Else.
Contexto: I have felt it myself. The glitter of nuclear weapons. It is irresistible if you come to them as a scientist. To feel it's there in your hands, to release this energy that fuels the stars, to let it do your bidding. To perform these miracles, to lift a million tons of rock into the sky. It is something that gives people an illusion of illimitable power, and it is, in some ways, responsible for all our troubles — this, what you might call technical arrogance, that overcomes people when they see what they can do with their minds.