Illusion Quotes

Rationality belongs to the cool observer, but because of the stupidity of the average man, he follow...

Wish You Were Here So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, Blue skys from pain. Can you tell...

Things aren't like this," he kept repeating. "It shouldn't be this way." As if he had access to some...

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinct...

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give...

We believe that it is possible for scientific work to gain some knowledge about the reality of the w...

There will be time, there will be timeTo prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.

Every culture that’s ever existed has operated under the illusion that it understood 95% of reality ...

Everyone has gods. You just don't think they're gods.

Aspects are within us and who seems most kingly is king.

Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now a...

The worst fear of the race yes, the world suddenly transformed into a senseless nightmare, horrible ...

Hypocrisy—in other words, the practice of lying about lying—shields us from seeing ourselves as we a...

Love releases us into the realm of divine imagination, where the soul is expanded and reminded of it...

Love is an optical illusion that makes you believe the object of your affection is the most beautifu...

But love – don’t we all talk a great deal of nonsense about it? What does one mean? ... It’s only a ...

But love...it's only an illusion. A story one makes up in one's mind about another person. And one k...

Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and...

No doubt we should be, on the whole, much worse off than we are without our astonishing gift for ill...

That illusion of a world so shaped that it echoes every groan, of human beings so tied together by c...

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are...

Philip thought that in throwing over the desire for happiness he was casting aside the last of his i...

What do you mean, 'Angle of Repose?' she asked me when I dreamed we were talking about Grandmother's...

There was somewhere, if you knew where to find it, some place where money could be made like drawing...

I don't mean to defend zoos. Close them all down if you want (and let us hope that what wildlife rem...

Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of one's own resourc...

It is not true that the heart wears out — but the body creates this illusion.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Work, the gospel of work, the sanctity of work, laborare est orare - all that tripe and nonsense. 'W...

Gatsby's self-willed metamorphosis from farm boy to prince is many ways identical to my father's. Li...

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

An era can be considered over when its basic illusions have been exhausted.

Fear, like love, is difficult to explain after it has subsided, probably because it draws away the v...

The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.

It is for this reason that we find that co-existence, which could neither be intime alone, for time ...

It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nat...

Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.

But George knows he can't do that. Because, absurdly, inadequately, in spite of himself, almost, he ...

I was very invested in love but it was just this long sex thing that could end at any moment because...

[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every mom...

One works hard to prop up an illusion that sucks the life out of them, and the other works hard to m...

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion if we wan...

She lost her illusions in the collapse of her sympathies.

In musical performances one can sense that the person on stage is having a good time even if they're...

There are two conversations going on at the same time: the story and a conversation about how the st...

When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditi...

Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.

Even if there are moments during the day when all seems normal and when every action of your own and...

People loved to think they were getting a deal. Four times out of five they would look right past wh...

Why am I made the way I am? Why do I care about all the wrong things, and nothing at all for the rig...

All problems are illusions of the mind.

Since then he had been walking with a ghost: the miserable ghost of his illusion. Only he had someho...

Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don't know the difference.George: No, but we must carry on as...

In the beginning there was faith-which is childish; trust-which is vain; and illusion-which is dange...

Sweet words. Gentle deceptive balm. Help, love, to belong together, to come back again— words, sweet...

To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It...

That's the whole burden of this novel - the loss of those illusions that give such color to the worl...

Again I see you, But me I don't see!, The magical mirror in which I saw myself has been broken, And ...

There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

Knowledge kills action action requires the veils of illusion.

But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indif...

Emotion arise from Desire, hence an Illusion.

Greater than all the joysOf heaven and earth,Greater still than dominionOver all the worlds,Is the j...

THE DEVIL. As far as I went, yes. But I will now go further, and confess to you that men get tired o...

Cognitive science has something of enormous importance to contribute to human freedom: the ability t...

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.

An illusion can become a half-truth, a mask can alter the expression of a face.

Every real object must cease to be what it seemed and none could ever be what the whole soul desired...

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. ...

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

Only a cynic can create horror--for behind every masterpiece of the sort must reside a driving demon...

Warped and bigoted with preconceived illusions of justice, freedom, and consistency, they cast off t...

For the first time in his life, Mont Blanc for a moment looked to him what it was - a chaos of anarc...

(On the seeming futility of metaphysics) Why then has nature afflicted our reason with the restless ...

...Reason should take on anew the most difficult of all its tasks, namely, that of self-knowledge, a...

I am in favour of illusion, not alienation... Drama must create a factitious spell-binding present m...

I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and...

I can see how, with enough false education, enough widespread illusion and error, men can, while rem...

You know Sven? The man who takes care of the gym?' he asked. He waited till he got a nod from Nichol...

I don't think anybody'd remember and certainly do know everybody'd lie. The reason I'm so bitter and...

Culture and collars had gone together, to him, and he had been deceived into believing that college ...

Everybody talks about freedom, citizens," the big man said gently, seeming to draw upon that very su...

You are the stuff of which consumer profiles – American Dream: Educated Middle-Class Model – are mad...

We can be seduced...by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those wit...

To inquire and to learn is the function of the mind, By learning I do not mean the mere cultivation ...

There is no spoon.

I don't care if you're gay, black, Chinese, straight. That means nothing to me. It's all an illusion...

Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind.I grasped a lovely masked process...

Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.

Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish if we are to live in society. It is one I have...

All order, I've come to understand, is theoretical, unreal — a harmless, sensible, smiling mask men ...

Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck.

How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.

These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin...

Time is an illusion of life the life of the past and the future clouds men from the true life of the...

As often happens between people who have chosen different ways, each of them, while rationally justi...