Magazines airbrush everything. If you think it's an illusion, then it probably is. — Valerie Harper Copy Share Image
What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What is actually happening is often less important than what appears to be happening. — William V. Shannon Copy Share Image
If you want to stay in a state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Art achieves all little things by absolute truth: but all her great things need some admixture of illusion. — Richard B. Garnett Copy Share Image
If you see the illusion you are enlightened, but if you think that you are enlightened you are in the illusion! — H. W. L. Poonja Copy Share Image
Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
“All time is illusion, unless it's a record of love. Life is but illusion, till it's an instrument of love.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Divine reality is not way up in the sky somewhere; it is readily available in the encounters of everyday life, which make… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
Perhaps we can never understand our own children, because there is too much of ourselves inside there, or perhaps we are just… — Dinty W. Moore Copy Share Image
What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca Copy Share Image
Professional philosophers are usually only apologists: that is, they are absorbed in defending some vested illusion or some eloquent idea. Like lawyers… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive,… — Charles Rosen Copy Share Image
We seem to prefer a comfortable lie to the uncomfortable truth. We punish those who point out reality, and reward those who… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
“Amidst this paradoxical existence emerges a dichotomy – a world dying outside, while we, ensnared in our paradisiacal illusion, merely survive without… — Ryan Gelpke Copy Share Image
Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think nobody would claim that random genetic drift is capable of producing adaptation, that is to say the illusion of design.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Politics is a subordinate matter; its form of appearance constantly changes depending on the needs of the masses, the same way cocottes… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
It’s such a floating freak show. You get a bit older and you start to see what’s going on backstage in the… — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image
“Peeling an Orange Between you and a bowl of oranges I lie nude Reading The World’s Illusion through my tears. You reach… — Virginia Adair Copy Share Image
“The Fall, a time when the illusion of the Maya fades away, a freedom from the identification with the illusory persona. For… — Virgil Kalyana Mittata Iordache Copy Share Image
I'm really creating abstract shapes and relationships that work together. They come together and give the illusion of reality, but they're really… — John Newman Copy Share Image
“I don't think anybody'd remember and certainly do know everybody'd lie. The reason I'm so bitter and, as I said, 'in anguish,'… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It makes sense to work towards a better world, but it doesn't make any sense to have illusions about what the real… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“What an illusion, she thinks, the idea of an ordered, ordinary life.” — Dalia Sofer Copy Share Image
I am fortunate to have the resources to have many methods to do each of my illusions. — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
“The one who has known for certain that all this world is the product of illusion, and that nothing exists, naturally enjoys… — Robert Wolfe Copy Share Image
The commonsense rules of the "real world" are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions. — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
“Daylight dreamer beware, Thin is the wall of illusion. The magic might be over too soon, Before you even reach the sun.” — Joso Skarica Copy Share Image
“Now they were regaining consciousness– were being treated to a cruel and lovely illusion.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“People wear masks in the light because true happiness are the agents of deception and delusion.” — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as the greatest of all time. It doesn't exist. It's an illusion. — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
Life never ceases. Life is an overflowing source, and death is only an obscure effect of illusions. — Andre Luiz Moreira Copy Share Image
“I know that life is just a game An illusion that will fade Cheat and lie, have it your way But you… — Samy Yusuf Copy Share Image
The illusion of life is crucial for the work, otherwise the ideas wouldn't be able to jump across, people wouldn't engage with… — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
Conceit is the illusion that our flaws aren't real. - Mwando, Gift Tawanda — Mwando Gift Tawanda Copy Share Image
Wisdom is not having illusions, especially anything in your own mind that elevates you above others. — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Beauty is the result of clarity and system and not of optical illusion. — Henry van de Velde Copy Share Image
