Illusion Quotes
1817 quotes by 1163 authors
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People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of…
— David Brinkley
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Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good…
— James Broughton
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It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can…
— Gabriel Byrne
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I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.
— Taylor Caldwell
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The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
— Carlos Castaneda
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I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
— Paul Cezanne
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Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly,…
— Margaret Cho
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
— Noam Chomsky
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What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
— Woody Allen
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Tradition is the illusion of permanance.
— Woody Allen
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You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded…
— Peter Abrahams
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Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose in view. Yet the living…
— Richard Dawkins
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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience and Infinite love is the only truth; everything…
— Pema Chodron
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Reality is an illusion created by a lack of alcohol.
— N. F. Simpson
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Think hard about the reasons for believing and not believing, what your religion teaches you and demands so inexorably that you believe. I am convinced…
— Jean Meslier
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Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.
— Timothy Zahn
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
— Jack Kornfield
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There is an illusion of central position, justifying one's own purposes as right and everybody else¹s as wrong, and providing a proper degree of paranoia.…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has…
— Brooks Atkinson
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