Illusions Quotes · Page 9

“He focused on the world before him; the illusions and the mysteries of the future haunted his eyes.”

— Leigh Hershkovich

I am under no illusions. My position, no matter how clearly stated, is likely to be misunderstood.

— David Benatar

How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.

— Hanif Kureishi

What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes.

— Sigmund Freud

The belief that enhanced understanding will necessarily stir a nation to action is one of mankind's oldest illusions

— Tertullian

You're a prisoner of your own illusions - about yourself and about the world.

— Dan Millman

“She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions.”

— Oscar Wilde

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

— Elizabeth Bowen

“I don't want you to taint that fragile coat of astonishing colors created by my illusions, which no painter has ever been…

— Anaïs Nin

“And what did it mean that this choice was an illusion, that all choices are illusions, or that if they are not…

— Kevin Powers

Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that you…

— Pascal Mercier

“To see oneself as one really is—if one is ever unlucky enough to have that experience—is quite shattering. The veil of illusions…

— M.C. Beaton

I have to admit that the empty prestige and the stupid glory - yes, the horrible rush, the deadly sense of importance…

— Michael Hastings

These [religious ideas] are given out as teachings, are not precipitates of experience or end-results of thinking: they are illusions, fullfilments of…

— Sigmund Freud

At any age we must cherish illusions, consolatory or merely pleasant; in youth, they are omnipresent; in old age we must search…

— Lord Chesterfield

The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life led by human beings; the second was that human…

— John Irving

We create the illusions we need to go on. And one day, when they no longer dazzle or comfort, we tear them…

— Libba Bray

It is not unusual for the eye or ear to play tricks with one, but when such illusions and delusions are taken…

— Harry Houdini

“My illusions about the world caused me to think that in order to benefit by my reading I ought to possess all…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There is an interesting scientific dispute about realism and optimism. Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These…

— Martin Seligman

Many other means there be, that promise the foreknowledge of things to come: besides the raising up and conjuring of ghosts departed,…

— Pliny the Elder

“But only in order to know if you, as you really are now, see yourself as you once were with all the…

— Luigi Pirandello

Science is the art of creating suitable illusions which the fool believes or argues against, but the wise man enjoys for their…

— Carl Jung

“In the long run, the pessimism of reactionaries never proves to be justified, but neither does the optimism of revolutionaries. The expansion…

— René Girard

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.

— Isabel Allende

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last.

— Helen Rowland

“Goliath symbolizes the vanity and the illusions of this world. They disappear in a puff”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

[Comedy] is an escape from illusions. The audience is...thinking, 'This bullshit we see and hear all day makes no sense.'

— Bill Hicks

“Mentalism is a harmonious blend of beauty and intelligence, the perfect balance of art and science.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Fear best lends itself to the creation of Nature-defying illusions.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired.

— Joseph Roux

Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Once you transcend the illusions you will discover that — you — are the most thrilling experience you will ever have.”

— Bryant McGill

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is…

— Alan Watts

While producing art works, illusions appear from time to time due to my mental illness. Every day is a struggle for me.

— Yayoi Kusama

Single vision produces worse illusions than double vision or many-headed monsters.

— Donna J. Haraway

“I realized that no matter how safe a person or place felt, in our world, safety was merely an illusion.”

— Yasmine Galenorn

What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.

— Anonymous

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

— Victor Hugo