Illusions Quotes

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In prison, illusions can offer comfort. — Nelson Mandela
One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time. — John Ortberg
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. — Sigmund Freud
Art is a never-ending dance of illusions. — Bob Dylan
My generation of director has no illusions that we are going to be fed and cared for by subsidized theater in America. — Diane Paulus
Like a cross between Paul Auster'sÂ The Book of IllusionsÂ and Janice Lee'sÂ Damnation,Â The Absolution of Roberto Acestes LaingÂ is at once smart and slyly unsettling. It is expert… — Brian Evenson
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
Rationalism belongs to the cool observer. But because of the stupidity of the average person, they follow not reason, but faith. This naÃ¯ve faith, requires… — Reinhold Niebuhr
Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery — Daniel J. Boorstin
Now let me be clear - I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. A man who butchers… — Barack Obama
Sweet pliability of man's spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions, which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments! - long -… — Laurence Sterne
A mutually fulfilled sexual union between two people is the rarest sensation which life can provide. But it is not quite real. It stops when… — Cyril Connolly
[Kepler] preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, and that is the heart of science. — Carl Sagan
Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It's what we live for, to be able to make great illusions. The thing about 'Entourage' is everything we do is realistic. We go to… — Adrian Grenier
I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding. — Hanif Kureishi
The only person with you all your life is you. Your parents die. Things inside you die â€” illusions, gushes of personality. Only you can… — Kate Bush
I'd always wanted to do these types of things - pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it. — David Blaine
That's the whole spiritual life. It's learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your illusions, and you… — Eugene H. Peterson
Misfortune occurs or can occur to anyone, of any sort of character. The eudaimonic has more resources to avoid it (being in autonomous control of… — Kenny Smith

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