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What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
Terence McKenna
We can label what we perceive as truth a socially endorsed and linguistically justified mirage.
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A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
Bertrand Russell
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A vision, without a plan, is just a hallucination.
Will Rogers
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Hallucinations are an inner experience in which most of the time you forget you're there.
Gaspar Noe
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Modern humans became fixated on a collective hallucination of linear time, ignoring the fractal spirals of the surrounding universe.
Daniel Pinchbeck
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Actually, I do happen to resemble a hallucination. Kindly note my silhouette in the moonlight." The cat climbed into the shaft of moonlight and wanted to keep talking but was asked to be quiet. "Very well, I shall be silent," he replied, "I shall be a silent hallucination.
Mikhail Bulgakov
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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
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I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination.
Scott Adams
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Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations
Aleister Crowley
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I'm not completely sure we aren't all living in a hallucination now.
Marc Maron
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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
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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
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Pick up any history book, and I suggest you begin with studying the 20th century, and you will find that a large part of the history of our species has all the characteristics we would normally associate with a nightmare or an insane hallucination.
Eckhart Tolle
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Really good music isn't just to be heard, you know?
It's almost like a hallucination
Iggy Pop
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Everything that you are or conceive of yourself as being is just an idea. It's an illusion. It's a hallucination.
Frederick Lenz
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Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.
Alan Watts
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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
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There's more of gravey than grave about you, whatever you are!" - Scrooge, referring to Marley's ghost which he believes is a hallucination from food poisoning
Charles Dickens
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I'm fascinated by hallucinations. I mean, to me that is the sina qua non that you're getting somewhere.
Terence McKenna
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My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad.
Brandon Sanderson
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I think it's all lovely hallucination but I love it sorta.
Jack Kerouac
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Well that's the nicest thing a beer induced hallucination has ever said to me.
Rocko
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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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One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time.
Charles Stross
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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
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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
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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
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Any attempt to dismiss a phenomenon that is not understood merely by explaining it as hallucination becomes irrelevant when a coherent scientific theory can be applied.
Amit Goswami
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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
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Maniacal suicide. —This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an imaginary danger or disgrace, or to obey a mysterious order from on high, etc.
Emile Durkheim
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You have to learn how to stay in a good mood as you overthrow the sour, puckered hallucination that is mistakenly referred to as reality.
Rob Brezsny
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[William Butler] Yeats has the phrase Hodos Chameliontos, chameleon-like, in that you don't know where the beginning or the middle or the end is, so it's an unrelieved hallucination, because you don't know where you're coming in and you don't know where you're going out. It ends, you're going into the hallucination, or maybe coming out of it, I don't know.
Allen Ginsberg
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H. L. Mencken suffers from the hallucination that he is H. L. Mencken - there is no cure for a disease of that magnitude.
Maxwell Bodenheim
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There was only the cemetery itself, spread out in the moonlight like a soft grey hallucination, a stony wilderness of Victorian melancholy.
Audrey Niffenegger
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The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests.
Alan Watts
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I prefer hallucinations cause they tend to make more sense than experience.
Todd Rundgren
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Reading is a socially acceptable form of hallucination.
Laura Furman
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All psychedelic explorers should be aware of the concept of what is called a cognitive hallucination. The is a much more insidious phenomenon. This is, quite simply, an out-and-out delusion.
Terence McKenna
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Aside from the nagging, he's the most entertaining hallucination I've ever had.
Kirsten Miller
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I'm fairly certain. I could be some ghastly hallucination, a figment of my own imagination
Derek Landy
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Maybe hallucinations are just another reality that we don't see most of the time
Lynne Ewing
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That little green drink inspired hallucination is right!
Rocko