Illusion Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne Download Open image “Some illusions...are the shadows of great truths.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Illusion Shadow Truth
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Illusions... are simple facts, but they have been created by the mind, by the spirit, and they are one of the justifications of the… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
''There is no truth it is an illusion created by the mind to control your thoughts and perception'' — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
None of this has ever been or will ever be; all is an appearance, all is an illusion. Illusions are truth. All illusions are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“there was something of the women molded into the great, stalwart frame of Hollingsworth; nor was he ashamed of it; as men often are… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“The dismaying thing about the classic totalitarian mind is that any given gear, though mutilated, will have at its circumference unbroken sequences of teeth… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire, I longed to kindle one!” — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“he seemed to be in quest for mental food, not heart sustenance.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Possibly, he was in a state of second growth and recovery, and was constantly assimilating nutriment for his spirit and intellect from sights, sounds,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“What wonder, then, should we be frightened by the aspect of a monster, which, after all,—though we can point to every feature of his… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
As the architecture of a country always follows the earliest structures, American architecture should be a refinement of the log-house. The Egyptian is so… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing. — Esther Meynell Copy Share Image
Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The fog of illusion, the fog of confusion is hanging all over the world. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in our hands,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Without illusions. I love you because you are fallible and because your poor misguided testosterone-corrupted brain has you doing cartwheels trying not to be.… — Cindy Gerard Copy Share Image
Many of us rely on our own illusion of control. But when God makes it known to you that you're not the one steering… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
How could they say that they truly loved each other? They had simply grown up together, been children together, and the proximity of it,… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not… — Kim Chernin Copy Share Image
