Illusions Quotes

502 Illusions quotes by 369 unique authors

If you know that everything comes from the mind, don't become attached. Once attached, you're unaware. But once you see your own nature, the entire… — Bodhidharma
Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years. — Sheila Ballantyne
Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and on the other… — Clifford Allbutt
None of this has ever been or will ever be; all is an appearance, all is an illusion. Illusions are truth. All illusions are real.… — Frederick Lenz
Illusions are shadows moving endlessly across the ground. The shadows are quite real but they're shadows. They have very little substance. — Frederick Lenz
All the manifest forms of existence are but illusions. They are momentary displays of consciousness, flashes of lightening in the sky. They are there for… — Frederick Lenz
It's only illusions that destroy us. It's illusions that convince us that we can't. It's the illusions of the transient that tell us that all… — Frederick Lenz
To try and fit reincarnation into a neat mental package is very unwise. You will be very surprised when you discover that it doesn't work… — Frederick Lenz
Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge. — Anatole France
Bright and illustrious illusions! — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The loss of our illusions is the only loss from which we never recover. — Ouida
There are optical illusions in time as well as space. — Marcel Proust
[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty,… — Joseph Conrad
Illusions... are simple facts, but they have been created by the mind, by the spirit, and they are one of the justifications of the new… — Georges Braque
I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself… — Noel Coward
I do not deny the rights of democracy, but I have no illusions as to the uses that will be made of those rights so… — Henri Frederic Amiel
The most dangerous of our calculations are those we call illusions. — Georges Bernanos
I have few illusions: the cause is lost in advance. As for me, I do my part, which is to drag a fairly drab existence… — Rene Magritte
Being famous gives you a lot of illusions of false self, of self-importance, a grandiosity, it becomes difficult to stay humble and real. You see… — Lili Taylor
We are not disillusioned because we have no illusions... What we have and what is our strength, is our joy in life... in all its… — Asger Jorn

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