Illusion Quotes

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Had it been published by a voice from heaven, that twelve poor men, taken out of boats and creeks, without any help of learning, should… — Stephen Charnock
The idea that the world can unite without being regulated is clearly an illusion. — Guy Verhofstadt
Ultimately, it's an illusion that you can understand yourself. — Paul Schrader
All things look good from far away and it is man's eternally persistent childlike faith in the reality of that illusion that has made him… — Rockwell Kent
Without art we live under the illusion that there is only time, and not eternity. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Nowledge which... transcends the bounds, the prejudices and prejudgements of any one society and culture is not an illusion but, on the contrary, a glorious… — Ernest Gellner
Are you looking for something real in this world of illusions? Call me. Casual Flings need not apply. I am looking for Love. — Aprilynne Pike
Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. — Philip Guston
Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours. — Mary Baker Eddy
It’s the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you’ll keep it under control. If you don’t make any noise, the bogeyman won’t… — Sophie Scholl
Illusions are certainly expensive amusements; but the destruction of illusions is still more expensive, if looked upon as an amusement, as it undoubtedly is by… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Our business is to wake up. We have to find ways in which to detect the whole of reality in the one illusory part which… — Aldous Huxley
Most people like to live in illusions. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
(...)normalcy is an illusion. Each person is utterly unique. A standard of normalcy is something that most people of the world simply will never access. — Colleen Houck
I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to… — Conrad Veidt
One cannot overstate the childishness of the ideas that feed and stir the masses. Real ideas must as a rule be simplified to the level… — Sebastian Haffner
Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you… — Anthony de Mello
You've got to drop something. You've got to drop illusions. You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop… — Anthony de Mello
Far superior to the pleasures and rewards of the illusion that is Earthly life are the pleasure and rewards of the Reality. — Ian Gardner
The Master gives himself up to whatever the moment brings. He knows that he is going to die, and her has nothing left to hold… — Laozi
Yet know this: there is no such thing as an incorrect path - for on this journey you cannot "not get" where you are going.… — Neale Donald Walsch
If these distracted times prove anything, they prove that the greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search… — John Cudahy
The sages say that life is illusion, but does that change its poignancy? — Ming-Dao Deng
As we increasingly become aware of the One Life breathing in each brother form of life, we learn the meaning of compassion, which literally means… — Christmas Humphreys
Life is one, said the Buddha, and the Middle Way to the end of suffering in all its forms is that which leads to the… — Christmas Humphreys

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