Illusion Quotes

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Reality even when it is sad is better than illusions. Illusions are at the mercy of any winds that blow. Real happiness must come from… — Helen Keller
Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen. — Vladimir Putin
Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false… — Henri Nouwen
God alone is real, and all else is illusion. — Meher Baba
European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The experience… — Virginia Postrel
In psychiatry there is a certain condition known as delusion of reprieve. The condemned man, immediately before his execution, gets the illusion that he might… — Viktor E. Frankl
Evil company is always to be shunned; because it leads to lust and anger, illusion, forgetfulness of the goal, destruction of the will (lack of… — Swami Vivekananda
The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages. — Horace Greeley
The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it. — Jorge Luis Borges
When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I advance, the happy prospect of futurity… — Maria Edgeworth
An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground. — Christoph Martin Wieland
I sell mirrors in the city of the blind. — Kabir
The art of a magician is not found in the simple deception, but in what surrounds it, the construction of a reality which supports the… — Jim Steinmeyer
If you hold on to the handle, it's easier to maintain the illusion of control. But it's more fun if you just let the wind… — Brian Andreas
Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life — Chuck Jones
My idea of magic doesn't have much to do with stage tricks and illusions. The whole world abounds in magic. — Michael Jackson
The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there. — Henri Nouwen
Don't get caught up on 'I'm brown, black, white, red, blue, whatever.' You gotta ask, what were you called before 1492? All these names we're… — Afrika Bambaataa
The media create this wonderful illusion-but the amount of airbrushing that goes into those beauty magazines-the hours of hair and makeup! It's impossible to live… — Jennifer Aniston
We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion. — Ansel Adams
The realization of Truth and Reality can never be created by the mind ... it always comes as a gift of grace. Inquiry clears away… — Adyashanti
There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives. — Terence McKenna
I am convinced that those who get themselves involved in the machinery of power politics, even for the purpose of destroying it, are bound to… — Vinoba Bhave
Illusions are the truths we live by until we know better. — Nancy Gibbs
The greatest tragedy of human existence is the illusion of separateness. — Albert Einstein

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