Illusions Quotes

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In vain do we seek tranquility in the desert; temptations are always with us; our passions, represented by the demons, never let us alone: those… — Baron de Montesquieu
What is real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand. — Eugene Delacroix
Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained. — Philibert Joseph Roux
Knowledge can be heady stuff, but it easily leads to an excess of zeal! -- to illusions of grandeur and a desire to impress others… — Hugh Nibley
The effect on men has been very bad, too, of the omission of women's history, because men have been given the impression that they're much… — Gerda Lerner
For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one or the other.… — Lorrie Moore
In order to find God in ourselves, we must stop looking at ourselves, stop checking and verifying ourselves in the mirror of our own futility,… — Thomas Merton
Single vision produces worse illusions than double vision or many-headed monsters. — Donna J. Haraway
God has this...hobby. He creates perfection. This world is not perfect. We have to learn to separate illusions from reality. — Bill Hicks
You're a prisoner of your own illusions - about yourself and about the world. — Dan Millman
Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to… — Cat Stevens
A mind now clouded by the illusions of the innate darkness of life is like a tarnished mirror, but when polished, it is sure to… — Nichiren
It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen… — Patrick Henry
History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with… — Howard Nemerov
I set out to become the greatest lover in Vienna, the greatest horseman in Austria, and the greatest economist in the world. Alas, for the… — Joseph A. Schumpeter
David Brin is a technological determinist. He thinks that we understand the trend and we need to hop on it. I don't have any such… — Bruce Sterling
InÂ Lullabies, I wanted to capture what I remembered of the drunken babbling of unfortunate twelve-year-olds: their illusions, their ludicrously bad choices, their lack of… — Heather O'Neill
We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane. — Tariq Ali
Democracy, Republic: What do these words signify? What have they changed in the world? Have men become better, more loyal, kinder? Are the people happier?… — Haile Selassie
THE ULTIMATE METAPHYSICAL SECRET, if we dare state it so simply, is that there are no boundaries in the universe. Boundaries are illusions, products not… — Ken Wilber

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