Illusion Quotes

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There is no more cruel illusion than that war makes a people richer. — Herbert Hoover
It is only that my illusion is more real to me than reality. And so do we often build our world on an error, and… — Mary Antin
What if somebody came along who could teach me how my world works and how to control it What if I could meet a super-advanced… — Richard Bach
Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality. — Herman Wouk
The problem is one of opposition between subjective and objective points of view. There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before… — Thomas Nagel
The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence ...… — Ludwig Feuerbach
And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even. — Judith Guest
There is the illusion of the world and the reality of the Torah. — Meir Kahane
The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Globalization is a reality. And this makes most leaders today realize that populist illusions can't be sustained before they collapse into stagnation and leave their… — Fernando Henrique Cardoso
When you have examined all the illusions of life and know that there isn't any reality, but you nevertheless go on, then you are a… — Marguerite Young
People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a… — Jose Saramago
When I was in high school, we were all laboring under the illusion, or maybe it was a reality, that everyone in our school was… — James Woods
When a country is in harmony with the Tao, the factories make trucks and tractors. When a country goes counter to the Tao, warheads are… — Laozi
The human being taken in his profound reality as well as in his great tension of becoming is a divided being, a being which divides… — Gaston Bachelard
Their military training will ensure success in war, but they must maintain unity by not allowing the state to grow to large, and by ensuring… — Plato
Forgiveness is not a matter of feeling superior, of feeling sorry for our parents because they didn't' know any better. It comes when we understand… — Gerald Jampolsky
It's fear of the unknown. The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams,… — John Lennon
As bank customers, we tend to believe that we can have both perfect security for our money, drawing on it whenever we want and never… — Ron Paul
The things that matter in this country have been reduced in choice, there are two political parties, there are a handful insurance companies, there are… — George Carlin
Our goal while on this earth is to transcend our illusions and discover the innate power of our spirit. We are responsible for what we… — Caroline Myss
Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian… — Mario Vargas Llosa
What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion. — Max Jacob
The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future. — Daniel Kahneman
The indispensability of reason does not imply that individual people are always rational or are unswayed by passion and illusion. It only means that people… — Steven Pinker

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