Illusion Quotes

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False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to… — Jean de la Bruyere
The most dangerous thing is illusion. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion. — George Eliot
I've looked at life from both sides now...from win and lose, and still somehow it's life's illusions I recall I really don't know life at… — Joni Mitchell
All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end. — Joseph Conrad
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted. — Arthur Miller
Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired. — Philibert Joseph Roux
If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch; or else your… — George Santayana
Your writer, your scientist, your chief official, all have lost the power to revive the early illusion concerning fame and high place. Their beauty and… — Theodore Dreiser
Action is thought tempered by illusion. — Elbert Hubbard
There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in fact exist creators,… — Abraham Maslow
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. To live a fulfilled life, we… — Mark Twain
There is nothing to learn about love. Everything is already there, in our genes, in our nature. We don't have to learn anything except what… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
You are the harmony within which all things move. They are just illusion. — Mooji
When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses. — Walter Russell
Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness,… — Aristophanes
The only thing that endures is character. Fame and wealth-all that is illusion. All that endures is character. — O J Simpson
The first part of the spiritual journey should properly be called psychological rather than spiritual because it involves peeling away the myths and illusions that… — Sam Keen
Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation. — C.S. Lewis
Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary limitations, seeking the maximum. In the first case one cheats the Good, by… — Franz Kafka
Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world. — Arnold Newman
The 'I' casts off the illusion of the 'I' and yet remains 'I'. Such is the paradox of Self-realization. The Realized do not see any… — Ramana Maharshi
You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you… — Luigi Pirandello

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