Illusion Quotes

1817 Illusion quotes by 1163 unique authors

Knowledge can be heady stuff, but it easily leads to an excess of zeal! -- to illusions of grandeur and a desire to impress others… — Hugh Nibley
Barack Obama has done more than anyone else to promote the dangerous illusion that we can choose whether to have a war or not. But… — Thomas Sowell
Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new… — Marshall McLuhan
Nothing more can be attempted than to establish the beginning and the direction of an infinitely long road. The pretension of any systematic and definitive… — Georg Simmel
The effect on men has been very bad, too, of the omission of women's history, because men have been given the impression that they're much… — Gerda Lerner
For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one or the other.… — Lorrie Moore
In order to find God in ourselves, we must stop looking at ourselves, stop checking and verifying ourselves in the mirror of our own futility,… — Thomas Merton
The great cosmic illusion is a hierophany.... One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes in its reality,… — Mircea Eliade
Single vision produces worse illusions than double vision or many-headed monsters. — Donna J. Haraway
The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion — Donna J. Haraway
Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and is lending oneself to the universal illusion without becoming its dupe. — Henri Frederic Amiel
God has this...hobby. He creates perfection. This world is not perfect. We have to learn to separate illusions from reality. — Bill Hicks
Oh my God. Lift me up out of this illusion, Lord. Heal my perception that I might know only reality and only you. — Bill Hicks
Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves The stages of… — Erwin Schrodinger
The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you? — Vernor Vinge
Relativity propped it up, at least gave it the illusion of being there…the way all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity.… — Joe Haldeman
The art of illusion is grace itself. — Steven Erikson
Do you see law and order? There is nothing but disorder, and instead of law there is the illusion of security. It is an illusion… — Mumia Abu-Jamal
The role of television is the illusion of company, noise. I call it the fifth wall and the second window: the window of illusion. — Mumia Abu-Jamal
You're a prisoner of your own illusions - about yourself and about the world. — Dan Millman
Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. Â This is the true self. Â Every other identity is illusion. Â God's love for you… — Brennan Manning
I’ve learned that fear is simply an illusion based on past experiences that we project into the present and onto the future. — Gabrielle Bernstein
I had the feeling . . . that my experience was very different from other people’s. (Are we all under this illusion?) — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told… — Martin Gardner
Let’s get one thing straight: Mexican food takes a certain amount of time to cook. If you don’t have the time, don’t cook it. You… — Denise Chavez

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