Illusion Quotes
1817 Illusion quotes by 1163 unique authors
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When it appears that there is no choice, some form of illusion is operating.
— Deepak Chopra
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The willingness to not bypass illusion is very important. We come to nirvana by way of samsara. We come to see the true nature of…
— Adyashanti
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All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged.
— Meher Baba
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Disabused of our illusions by much travel and travail, we awaken one day to find that the sacred center is here and now - in…
— Parker J. Palmer
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In prison, illusions can offer comfort.
— Nelson Mandela
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It is not true that the heart wears out - but the body creates this illusion.
— Albert Camus
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One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
— John Ortberg
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Like Musa you too will be saved from the Sea. Just look through it and see Him. Then the illusion will crumble and you'll be…
— Yasmin Mogahed
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I see the world as an illusion, and we shouldn't take ourselves so seriously
— Andy Kaufman
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As long as we prioritize material truths over spiritual truths we will live in tyranny because we are living an illusion
— Russell Brand
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Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead.
— Sigmund Freud
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If there’s one thing I’ve learned my whole life, time and age are but an illusion.
— Elizabeth Reyes
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According to the Buddha, the failure to recognize the illusion of the self is the source of all ignorance and unhappiness. It is only by…
— Neel Burton
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Art is a never-ending dance of illusions.
— Bob Dylan
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As each one of us awakens, it is like a light going on, followed by another light, another light, and another light. The darkness of…
— Leonard Jacobson
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Choice is illusion, same as happiness and freedom.
— Carolyn Crane
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Everything is just electricity and magnetism; everything is only an illusion. The reality is in the spiritual plane.
— Lobsang Rampa
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The seduction of safety is always more dangerous than the illusion of uncertainty.
— Robin Sharma
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My generation of director has no illusions that we are going to be fed and cared for by subsidized theater in America.
— Diane Paulus
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Like a cross between Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions and Janice Lee's Damnation, The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing is at once smart and slyly unsettling. It is expert…
— Brian Evenson
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I have no illusions at all about being a sex symbol. None of my former girlfriends ever thought of me that way, and I don't…
— Tobey Maguire
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There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.
— Daniel Dennett
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I've never really had a waist. Even when I was at my slimmest, my silhouette was very straight up, straight down. But I have learnt…
— Twiggy
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A lot of the demonstrations that I do, when I get inside peoples minds, is understanding human behavior and understanding how people think and getting…
— Criss Angel
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Rationalism belongs to the cool observer. But because of the stupidity of the average person, they follow not reason, but faith. This naïve faith, requires…
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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