Illusion Quotes

1817 Illusion quotes by 1163 unique authors

The economic illusion is the belief that social justice is bad for economic growth. — Robert Kuttner
Let's call this then, only half facetiously, a new patristic, in which the intellectual is charged with the task not only to denounce error and… — Michael Hardt
The New Yorker has always dealt with experience not by trying to understand it but by prescribing the attitude to be adopted toward it. This… — Robert Warshow
For those in love with an illusion often refuse to accept reality — Sanal Edamaruku
You are traveling and see these people shooting the entire experience of going through a city, and maybe in the back of their minds they… — Atom Egoyan
Ultimately, of course, you must decide for yourself whether the subjective psychological effects created by your evolved cognitive biases reflect an objective reality, perhaps as… — Jesse Bering
Human identity is fundamentally an illusion; it’s an evolutionary overhang which lets us function as coherent self-aware animals. But, on a deep level, we have… — Sarah Newton
Today, when death and old age are increasingly concealed behind euphemisms and comforting baby talk, and life is threatened with being smothered in the mass… — Martin Esslin
We have the illusion of freedom only because so few ever try to exercise it. Try it sometime. Try to save your home from the… — Karl Hess
In short, no association or alliance can be happy or stable without me. People can't long tolerate a ruler, nor can a master his servant,… — Desiderius Erasmus
This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, Theres nothing… — Charles Lamb
You go on being reincarnated until you reach the actual Truth. Heaven and Hell are just a state of mind. We are all here to… — George Harrison
This world is nothing. An illusion. Death is the release. — Jack Abbott
It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its foundations among his… — C L R James
Imperialism creates the illusion of wealth as far as the masses are concerned. It usually serves to hide the fact that the ruling classes are… — Jack D. Forbes
Illusion is the mantle of the Real — Frederick Franck
Control is an illusion. You will never be able to control anything, any situation, or anyone without consent. So in actuality there is no control,… — Jennifer O'Neill
Now you see. We are all fugitives. We have always been fugitives from the void. Whatever comfort, whatever power we gain from outside of ourselves… — A.A. Attanasio
Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion. — Al Goldstein
It is necessary to expose the false propaganda of the imperialists and thoroughly dispel the illusion that the imperialists will give up their positions in… — Kim Il-sung
All religions, all this singing, one song. The differences are just illusion and vanity. The sun’s light looks a little different on this wall than… — Unknown Author
From experience, I came to learn that ayahuasca bestows upon the user knowledge about a variety of topics, not only consciousness and perception, but also… — Pablo Amaringo
Now suppose that the clue experiences that can correct the illusion become for some reason increasingly scarce – perhaps because the dominant story itself brings… — Val Plumwood
Over the years, Americans in particular have been all too willing to squander their hard-earned independence and freedom for the illusion of feeling safe under… — Cody Lundin
The mind spends most of the time lost in fantasies and illusions, reliving pleasant or unpleasant experiences and anticipating the future with eagerness or fear.… — S. N. Goenka

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