Illusion Quotes

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In any city with lots of skyscrapers, lots of skyline, the moon seems bigger than it is. It's called the moon illusion. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous,… — Thomas Carlyle
The universe is illusion merely, not one speck of it real, and we are not only its victims, falling always into or smashed by a… — Annie Dillard
What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions. — Philibert Joseph Roux
Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The most important part of our lives-our sensations, emotions, desires, and aspirations-takes place in a universe of illusions which science can attenuate or destroy, but… — Joseph Wood Krutch
Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford. — Arthur Goldberg
It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism. — Jacques Barzun
Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West. — Henry A. Kissinger
Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists. — Antonio Machado
Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions. — Hector Hugh Munro
Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows. — Bernard Malamud
I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull. — John Galsworthy
And we, inhabitants of the great coral of the Cosmos, believe the atom (which still we cannot see) to be full matter, whereas, it too,… — Umberto Eco
The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the spirit… — Lord Acton
Oh, the illusion of choice in the modern world - don't get me started. But don't you agree that the Internet has softened our brains… — Lynne Truss
Life and death are nothing but the mind. Years, months, days, and hours are nothing but the mind. Dreams, illusions, and mirages are nothing but… — Dogen
The necessity of loyalty between friends, the responsibility that the strong owe the infirm, the illusion of ill-gotten gain, the rewards of hard work, honesty,… — Michael Dorris
Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that… — Jonathan Raban
I don't drink or do any drugs. I never have and I never will. I don't need them. I'm a black woman from the land… — Bertice Berry
In antihistory, time is an illusion. — Jill Lepore
I like the idea that we build up these walls or rules or laws to maintain our reality, and when they fall away, you're left… — Sarah McLachlan
Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create… — Navid Negahban

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