Illusion Quotes

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Allah made the illusion look real and the real an illusion. He concealed the sea and made the foam visible, the wind invisible, and the… — Unknown Author
Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
...The unconscious has no time. There is no trouble about time in the unconscious. Part of our psyche is not in time and not in… — Carl Jung
God's revelation... unmasks our illusions about ourselves. It exposes our pride, our individualism, our self-centeredness - in short, our sin. But worship also offers forgiveness,… — Marva Dawn
You may be living under the illusion that when God ignites great things in your life, He'll announce it with a big bang. He might.… — Steven Furtick
But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy...One has to free oneself from the illusion that international… — Ottmar Edenhofer
The misconception that there is serious disagreement among scientists about global warming is actually an illusion that has been deliberately fostered by a relatively small… — Al Gore
A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings. — Albert Einstein
Reality, for all intents and purposes, is just life - the real world, pure and uncut, shot straight to the vein of our souls every… — Corey Taylor
Dialogue must appear realistic without being so. Actual realism-the lifting, as it were, of passages from a stenographer's take-down of a 'real life' conversation-would be… — Elizabeth Bowen
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
People are under the illusion that it's easy...Technically, it is complex. You have a million options with equipment to distract you. I tell my students… — Brett Weston
A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space. — Garry Winogrand
The true wisdom of the philosopher ought to insist in enjoying everything. Yet we apply ourselves to dissecting and destroying everything that is good in… — Eugene Delacroix
It is tempting to pretend that minorities on death row share a fate in no way connected to our own, that our treatment of them… — William J. Brennan
It is the habit of the unthinking to turn to the illusions of economic magic. These unhappy times call for the building of plans that… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Darwin's greatest achievement was to show that the appearance of purpose, planning, teleology (design), and intentionality in the origin and development of human and animal… — John Searle
He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen. — John Maynard Keynes
If a fox is unable to befriend a tiger, then the fox should create an illusion of close association with the tiger by carefully trailing… — Chin-Ning Chu
We are talking about an awesome power. It is the power to weave illusions that appear real as long as they last. That is the… — Ron Paul
Success on a cosmic level completely eludes me. I'm deeply suspicious of things being too good. It's part of my superstition, I think, to generate… — Hugh Laurie
It helps to resign as the controller of your fate. All that energy we expend to keep things running right is not what's keeping things… — Anne Lamott
Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. — Minna Antrim
The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by excluding moral truths… — Pope John Paul II
In many ways, constancy is an illusion. — Mary Catherine Bateson

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