We all have our little illusions about our own mental abilities. — Cornelia Otis Skinner Copy Share Image
“Maybe illusions should be left alone. Because without them, everything looked broken and ugly.” — Amanda Howells Copy Share Image
“It's hard to tell where reality ends and illusions begins. They blend - then they separate” — Lind Goodman Copy Share Image
Illusions and pipe dreams on the one hand And straight reality is always cold — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Life is never what we imagine it is. Great illusions are so powerful, when we want them to be true — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
“All of us insist upon our illusions, upon substituting dreams and distorted memories for the real thing.” — Erin Hart Copy Share Image
The belief that enhanced understanding will necessarily stir a nation to action is one of mankind's oldest illusions — Tertullian Copy Share Image
How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs. — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that you… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
“The world is an illusion. Those who choose to come to it are seeking for a place where they can be illusions,… — MiraclesOne Foundation Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“And what did it mean that this choice was an illusion, that all choices are illusions, or that if they are not… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
All the manifest forms of existence are but illusions. They are momentary displays of consciousness, flashes of lightening in the sky. They… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
At any age we must cherish illusions, consolatory or merely pleasant; in youth, they are omnipresent; in old age we must search… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I have to admit that the empty prestige and the stupid glory - yes, the horrible rush, the deadly sense of importance… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
“It is true that we still talk about "happiness" or "liberty" or "justice," but people no longer have any idea of the… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
“No, certainly not. There I should find people who would try to force me to understand things of which I would prefer… — Alexander Dumas Copy Share Image
“We are all of us, to some degree or another, brain-washed by the society we live in. We are able to see… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Learning has been liberated from the despotism of the few and is now available to the mass public for one's own evolution.… — D. Allen Miller Copy Share Image
The idea that positive illusions are in the service of sef-esteem virtually requires that they stay in check. If one develops substantially… — Shelley E. Taylor Copy Share Image
“people were so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool's caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else's were transparent,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Noi fummo i Gattopardi, i Leoni; quelli che ci sostituiranno saranno gli sciacalletti, le iene; e tutti quanti gattopardi, sciacalli e pecore,… — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Copy Share Image
Our illusions-the beliefs we hold on to-are the very doorways to our freedom. We simply have to enter through them without grasping… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
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