Illusion Quotes

3,604 quotes from 1,804 authors

Illusion tricks the mind, blurring the line between what is real and what is imagined. This collection gathers over three thousand thoughts from a diverse set of writers, showing how artists, scientists, and everyday observers use illusion to examine perception, deception, and fragile foundations of belief.

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“They sell crap to buy you.”

Toba Beta

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Crowds create illusions.

Anonymous

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Love is an illusion

Anonymous

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“What's not there is.”

Cameron Conaway

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Bright and illustrious illusions!

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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“Magic is logic.”

Amit Kalantri

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“Beauty is an illusion.”

Abhijit Naskar

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“Freedom is an ILLUSION”

Dhanwanth

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Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion.

Margaret Fuller

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“The present is like the flatness of Earth: an illusion. We”

Carlo Rovelli

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“A lie is not the absence of truth, but the illusion of truth.”

Bishop Harber

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“The present is the closest that you will ever get to the future.”

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Illusion I will be, for I've never been a sinner.

David Bowie

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“Life is an illusion. The universe is a hologram.”

Bill Cipher

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“Twitter gives people an illusionary sense of leadership.”

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“All is illusion only until it is lived.”

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“Like the moon shining bright Up high with all its grace, I can only show you at night And hide half of…

Ana Claudia Antunes

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Our normal sense of the person as a lonely island of consciousness, is a dramatic illusion based on theological imagery.

Alan Watts

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The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.

Derek Jarman

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I think many people have an illusion of success based on entering in at a level that's higher than their experiences.

T. D. Jakes

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It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

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Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an…

George Bernard Shaw

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“The search for meaning is an illusion of logic and a requirement of the middleclass for predictable breeding space.”

Christopher S. Hyatt

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“You said you were a fairy princess You said you were a shooting star You said we'd go to Bora Bora Now…

Jennifer Egan

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The democratic concept of man is false, because it is Christian. The democratic concept holds that . . . each man is…

Karl Marx

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What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what…

Edith Head

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Tutelage is a comfortable relationship for the senior partner, but it is demoralizing in the long run. It breeds illusions of omniscience…

Henry A. Kissinger

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People who cling to their illusions find it difficult, if not impossible, to learn anything worth learning: a people under the necessity…

Anonymous

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Do not feel that you are destined to enlightenment in this life. You have no idea. This is an illusion of selfhood.…

Frederick Lenz

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I thought poetry could change everything, could change history and could humanize, and I think that the illusion is very necessary to…

Mahmoud Darwish

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“ça ressemble au bonheur, on dirait du bonheur, mais ce n'est pas du bonheur. On devrait être heureux, on ne l'est pas;…

Frédéric Beigbeder

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Perhaps my life is nothing but an image of this kind; perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion…

Andre Breton

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The unbroken realization that you are indivisible from the universe, from universal consciousness, from the source of everything - that you are…

Daniel Pinchbeck

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Stories hold power because they convey the illusion that life has purpose and direction. Where God is absent from the lives of…

John Hodgman

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The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to what extent their cultural development will succeed…

Sigmund Freud

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In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were lucky, one…

Anonymous

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To persuade thinking persons in Eastern Europe that Central American Marxists - the Sandinistas, the guerillas in El Salvador - are in…

Michael Novak

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I love Jonathan Adler but more importantly I love throws. To clarify, a throw is not to be confused with a blanket.…

Max Greenfield

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Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth…

Erich Fromm

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It is a mistake to imagine that you can awaken in any kind of permanent way. There is only NOW and so…

Leonard Jacobson

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