Illusion Quotes
1817 Illusion quotes by 1163 unique authors
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Everybody felt his superiority, but nobody felt oppressed by it. Though he had no illusions about people and human affairs, he was full of kindness…
— Albert Einstein
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The true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions we uncover the laws of truth
— Unknown Author
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Radical acceptance rests on letting go of the illusion of control and a willingness to notice and accept things as they are right now, without…
— Marsha M. Linehan
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Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually…
— Martin Seligman
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The democratic concept of man is false, because it is Christian. The democratic concept holds that . . . each man is a sovereign being.…
— Karl Marx
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Gone is the blinding glow in his hands - gone, too, is the illusion of purity and beauty! In it's place all that remains is…
— Dave Sim
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People do not marry people, not real ones anyway; they marry what they think the person is; they marry illusions and images. The exciting adventure…
— Unknown Author
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There are television sets in every home, every restaurant, every hotel room, every shopping mall-now they’re even small enough to carry in your pocket like…
— Anton Szandor LaVey
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The task of the software development team is to engineer the illusion of simplicity.
— Grady Booch
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Each time I make a photograph I celebrate the life I love and the beauty I know and the happiness I have experienced. All my…
— Ruth Bernhard
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Everything, husband, wife, or even the body, is only illusory. These are all shackles of illusion. Unless you can free yourself from these bondages, you…
— Sarada Devi
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To me, spirituality is about two things: The liberation of consciousness from all illusion, so that the true nature can shine and an embodiment in…
— Unknown Author
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There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion - a false hope.
— Sue Miller
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We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a…
— Talib Kweli
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Just as the 99% of Soviet citizens who supported the Soviet regime in 1985 was no indication of what the people inside the USSR really…
— Natan Sharansky
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The self is fundamentally an illusion arising as a reflection of the soul in matter, much as a clear lake at midnight reflects the moon.
— Fred Alan Wolf
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Deductivism in mathematical literature and inductivism in scientific papers are simply the postures we choose to be seen in when the curtain goes up and…
— Peter Medawar
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Death is the greatest illusion of all.
— Rajneesh
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There is no illusion great than fear.
— Laozi
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Confidence is the illusion born of accidental success.
— Thomas a Kempis
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As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be.
— Saul Alinsky
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It is difficult not to believe that the next year will be better than the old one! And this illusion is not wrong. Future is…
— Unknown Author
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We have been ruled by men who live by illusions ... the illusion that there is some other way of creating wealth than hard work…
— Margaret Thatcher
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