Illusion Quotes

1817 Illusion quotes by 1163 unique authors

If you want to stay in a state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up. — Alan Watts
When the horror recedes and the world resumes its normal shape, you cannot forget it. You have seen what is really there, the empty horror… — Karen Armstrong
Banks and churches and courtrooms all depend on the appurtenances of theatre. On illusion. Banks, the illusion of stability and honourable dealings to the rot… — E L Doctorow
I'm really trying hard not to do anything that has been done before. So knowing everything I can about the legacy of magic challenges my… — David Copperfield
Apparently when we enter the Earth existence, the third dimensional reality, we exist with a façade as actors playing various roles. For some it is… — Dolores Cannon
What is society but an individual? [] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of… — Osamu Dazai
Gaga is an entertainer, so a hat for her is part of the illusion of entertaining. — Philip Treacy
Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes. — Philip Treacy
In general, it’s not too hard to corrupt an American, mostly a matter of supply to their demand. Supply should be variegated to encourage the… — Geoffrey Wood
I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse. — Julian Casablancas
All is illusion, although as long as there's an illusion that the kids need to be fed, all might as well be reality. — Robert Breault
I also realized that the philosophers, far from ridding me of my vain doubts, only multiplied the doubts that tormented me and failed to remove… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
To persuade thinking persons in Eastern Europe that Central American Marxists - the Sandinistas, the guerillas in El Salvador - are in absurd and tragic… — Michael Novak
The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary. — George Bernard Shaw
What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality. — Ruth Bernhard
History, insofar as it accustoms human beings to comprehend the whole of the past and to hasten forward with its conclusions into the far future,… — Friedrich Schiller
The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself. — Carl Jung
We wake from one dream into another dream. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want. — Erich Fromm
When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no… — Bernard Baruch
The illusion of randomness gradually disappears as the skill in chart reading improves. — John Murphy
It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a… — Mark Twain
Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion. — Allan Bloom

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