Our Illusions Quotes
24 quotes by 22 authors
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We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
— Jack Kornfield
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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
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God's revelation... unmasks our illusions about ourselves. It exposes our pride, our individualism, our self-centeredness - in short, our sin. But worship also offers forgiveness,…
— Marva Dawn
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Our goal while on this earth is to transcend our illusions and discover the innate power of our spirit. We are responsible for what we…
— Caroline Myss
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Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Our illusions-the beliefs we hold on to-are the very doorways to our freedom. We simply have to enter through them without grasping or pushing away.…
— Adyashanti
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Disabused of our illusions by much travel and travail, we awaken one day to find that the sacred center is here and now - in…
— Parker J. Palmer
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What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
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Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.
— Anatole France
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The loss of our illusions is the only loss from which we never recover.
— Ouida
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In the Bhagavad-Gita, a dialogue ensues in the middle of a battlefield, symbolizing the battlefield of life which we are fighting through our illusions.
— Frederick Lenz
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Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations,…
— Joseph Conrad
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The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.
— Emile Zola
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cannot possess our children, lovers, family, or…
— Jack Kornfield
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We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
— W. Somerset Maugham
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A moral character is attached to autumnal scenes; the leaves falling like our years, the flowers fading like our hours, the clouds fleeting like our…
— François-René de Chateaubriand
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How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.
— Hanif Kureishi
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What a fool I was! and yet, in the sight of angels, are we any wiser as we grow older? It seems to me, only,…
— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Who Wrote These Our Illusions Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 24 Our Illusions Quotes as follows: