Illusion Quotes

1817 Illusion quotes by 1163 unique authors

A woman should be an illusion — Ian Fleming
When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in… — Gary Zukav
I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek… — George Sand
That the fundamental aspects of heredity should have turned out to be so extraordinarily simple supports us in the hope that nature may, after all,… — Thomas Hunt Morgan
'By convention there is color, by convention sweetness, by convention bitterness, but in reality there are atoms and the void,' announced Democritus. The universe consists… — Edward Robert Harrison
Every perception of color is an illusion, we do not see colors as they really are. In our perception they alter one another. — Josef Albers
The mind has its illusions as the sense of sight; and in the same manner that the sense of feeling corrects the latter, reflection and… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
On foundations we believe in the reality of mathematics, but of course, when philosophers attack us with their paradoxes, we rush to hide behind formalism… — Jean Dieudonne
We live our lives for our life's sake, rather than for illusions about rewards and satisfaction after we're dead. — PZ Myers
The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free. — Margaret Atwood
The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing… — Henri Frederic Amiel
At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark… — Thomas Merton
Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false Self. We are not very good at recognizing illusions, least of all the… — Thomas Merton
Real peace comes only when you stop chasing it. When you relax your driving desire for comfort, real fulfillment arises. When you drop your hectic… — Henepola Gunaratana
Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it all lacks totality, completeness, unity. When the Illustrious Buddha taught… — Hermann Hesse
If we take shelter of the lotus feet of the spiritual master, we can become free from illusion, fear and distress. If we wholeheartedly beg… — Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati
If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for… — Eckhart Tolle
Man did not address his inquiries to the earth on which he stood until a remarkably late stage in the development of his desire for… — Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald
When you have lived longer in this world and outlived the enthusiastic and pleasing illusions of youth, you will find your love and pity for… — Joseph Henry Shorthouse
"Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will," she says. The sky is like a monochromatic contemporary painting, drawing me in with its illusion of… — John Green
... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills and diseases of… — Alfred Tarski
Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion. — Theodor Adorno
The trouble with illusions is that you aren't aware you have any until they are taken away from you. — Mary Doria Russell
The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action. — Oscar Wilde
Mind is the illusion that which is not but appears, and appears so much that you think that you are the mind. — Rajneesh

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