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Hallucinations and illusions are not facts useful for scientific investigation. -- Goparaju Ramachandra Rao
Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations -- Aleister Crowley
Hallucinations are an inner experience in which most of the time you forget you're there. -- Gaspar Noe
The ten thousand states of mind are hallucinatory. Hallucinations are real. Dreams are real. But there are some things more real. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination. -- William Gibson
I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination. -- Scott Adams
Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination. -- George Bernard Shaw
I'm not completely sure we aren't all living in a hallucination now. -- Marc Maron
Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucination -- Thomas A. Edison
The difference between a vision and a hallucination is that other people can see the vision. -- Marc Andreessen
A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it. -- Bertrand Russell
Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts. -- William Gibson
Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! gone down the American river! Dreams! adorations! illumnations! religions! the whole boatload of sensitive bullshit! -- Allen Ginsberg
There is no line between the 'real world' and 'world of myth and symbol.' Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination. -- William S. Burroughs
If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss. -- Marguerite Young
A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life. -- Terence McKenna
There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of a Milton is that he functions as a Milton. -- H. L. Mencken
Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you. They jeer at you. You interact with them. -- Oliver Sacks
It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously. -- H. L. Mencken
Ordinarily it would take me about fifteen minutes to get a hallucination going," wrote Feynman, "but on a few occasions, when I smoked some marijuana beforehand, it came very quickly. -- Richard P. Feynman
[D]oes the real world have any more substance than visions and hallucinations when we're having them? At any given moment, what's happening in our minds is all and everything that happens. -- Roger Ebert
I went to a psychologist friend and said if 500 people claimed to see Jesus after he died, it was just a hallucination. He said hallucinations are an individual event. If 500 people have the same hallucination, that's a bigger miracle than the resurrection. -- Lee Strobel
All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control. -- Chauncey Wright
All that you ever need to know about genitals is that they are made up of flesh, blood, and millions of tiny, restless nerve endings - anything else that you read into them is mere hallucination, a product of your own overactive imagination. -- Julia Serano
Pornography is the quadraphonics of sex. It adds a third and fourth track to the sexual act. It is the hallucination of detail that rules. Science has already habituated us to this microscopics, this excess of the real in its microscopic detail, this voyeurism of exactitude. -- Jean Baudrillard
Given her deafness, the auditory part of the brain, deprived of its usual input, had started to generate a spontaneous activity of its own, and this took the form of musical hallucinations, mostly musical memories from her earlier life. The brain needed to stay incessantly active, and if it was not getting its usual stimulation..., it would create its own stimulation in the form of hallucinations. -- Oliver Sacks
No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like Blake's illustration for a canal in grassy Eden: huge Pacific watery shore, Orlovsky dancing naked like Shiva long-haired before giant green waves, titanic cliffs that Wordsworth mentioned in his own Sublime, great yellow sun veiled with mist hanging over the planet's oceanic horizon. No harm. -- Allen Ginsberg
Ideas without execution are hallucinations. -- Thomas A. Edison
With friends like these, who needs hallucinations? -- John Astin
Is it mad to pray for better hallucinations? -- Alice Liddell
I prefer hallucinations cause they tend to make more sense than experience. -- Todd Rundgren
Maybe hallucinations are just another reality that we don't see most of the time -- Lynne Ewing
Flying saucers are real. Too many good men have seen them, that don't have hallucinations. -- Eddie Rickenbacker
Madness designates the equinox between the vanity of night's hallucinations and the non-being of light's judgments. -- Michel Foucault
Insanity is believing your hallucinations are real. Religion is believing that other peoples' hallucinations are real. -- Dan Barker
My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad. -- Brandon Sanderson
I'm fascinated by hallucinations. I mean, to me that is the sina qua non that you're getting somewhere. -- Terence McKenna
Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama's hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe. -- Yayoi Kusama
About 10 percent of the hearing impaired get musical hallucinations, and about 10 percent of the visually impaired get visual hallucinations. -- Oliver Sacks
The only non-believer I encountered was Oscar Levant who wouldn't visit Disneyland because he said he had his own hallucinations. -- Jack Paar
My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings. -- Yayoi Kusama
I have auditory hallucinations, I hear voices saying derogatory things, like I'm terrible and I'm going to die, and they're usually worse in the afternoon. -- Brian Wilson
Most of us accept that although we may believe our dreams to be real events, upon waking, we can tell the difference between nocturnal hallucinations and reality. -- Siri Hustvedt
MISERABLERelease the toxic and infectious-Spreaders of misery,Souls destroying souls-And poisonous liars.Awaken from the hallucinations-And take back your heart.Reclaim your self-esteem-And leave the toxic be. -- Giorge Leedy
I wanted to make a film that gave the people who took LSD at that time the hallucinations that you get with that drug, but without hallucinating, -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
The global network of DNA-based life emits ultra-weak radio waves, which are currently at the limit of measurement, but which we can nonetheless perceive...in hallucinations and dreams. -- Jeremy Narby
In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a sign of something awful happening to the brain, whereas in most cases theyre not. -- Oliver Sacks
In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a sign of something awful happening to the brain, whereas in most cases they're not. -- Oliver Sacks
Chemically induced hallucinations, delusions and raptures may be frightening or wonderfully gratifying; in either case they are in the nature of confidence tricks played on one's own nervous system. -- Arthur Koestler
While he mused on the effect of the flowing sands, he was seized from time to time by hallucinations in which he himself began to move with the flow. -- Kobo Abe
There's a whole range of sources of inspiration for the drawings and stories. They come from dreams, hallucinations, pop songs, or other things I see in the world around me. -- Ryan McGinness
Look at him now, poor fellow. That's what a dose of reality does for you...Never touch the stuff myself, you understand. Find it gets in the way of the hallucinations. -- Alan Moore
It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen here" -- that one's own time and place is beyond cataclysm. -- John Wyndham
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A great nation assailed by war has not only its frontiers to protect: it must also protect its good sense. It must protect itself from the hallucinations, injustices, and follies which the plague lets loose. -- Romain Rolland

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