Best 1021 quotes in «illusion quotes» category

I work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place.

[Kepler] preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, and that is the heart of science.

Juggling is an illusion. ... In reality, the balls are being independently caught and thrown in rapid succession. ... It is actually task switching.

Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.

Life is beautiful. Really, it is. Full of beauty and illusions. Life is great. Without it, you'd be dead.

I would say that love today is a relatively rare phenomenon, that we have a great deal of sentimentality; we have a great deal of illusion about love, namely as a... as something one falls in.

Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.

Love thy neighbor as thyself because you are your neighbor. It is illusion that makes you think that your neighbor is someone other than yourself.

Let the American infidels bask in their illusion.

Masks are the order of the day - and the least I can do is cultivate the illusion that I am gay, serene, not hollow and afraid.

Magic lives in curves, not angles.

Maturity is a series of shattered illusions.

Matter and death are mortal illusions.

Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.

Make peace with guilt. Guilt is a poisonous illusion. Many languages don't even have a word for guilt.

Men should never marry their muse. It ruins the illusion.

Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.

Monopoly power is an illusion in any system in which free competition is allowed.

Life never ceases. Life is an overflowing source, and death is only an obscure effect of illusions.

Mindfulness is a quality that's always there. It's an illusion that there's a meditation and post-meditation period, which I always find amusing, because you're either mindful or you're not.

Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.

most of us carry into marriage not only our childlike illusions, but we bring to it as well the demand that it has to be wonderful, because it's supposed to be.

My point was that it's hard to make good films, but I'm not under any illusion that you do all the time.

No, Mary had no illusions about romance. Falling in love was a pretty name for it, that was all.

Never content just to be, America is also obliged to mean; America signifies, hence its constant and riveting vulnerability to illusion.

My films generally center around thousands of pictures being flashed in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity.

Nothing real stands between you and your happiness, only illusion and confusion.

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. We say illusion, meaning that they're shadows.

Observe your actions but be so busy that you never contemplate their possible effects. It is only this consciousness that leads to liberation. Everything else is illusion.

Oh, how powerfully the magnet of illusion attracts.

Now that you've reached everything, you must slay this illusion without slaying it - without becoming caught up in the illusion of slaying illusions.

Only love is real...everything else is illusion

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.

Om (AUM) is the truth of all truths, the light of all lights and the destroyer of all illusions.

O my companion, Worldly comfort is an illusion, As soon you get it, it goes.

Originality is merely an illusion.

One who is publicly honest about himself ends up by priding himself somewhat on this honesty: for he knows only too well why he is honest-for the same reasons another person prefers illusion and dissimulation.

Pain destroys the illusions of false, that is, elitist pleasures. It burns from the inside out. It, therefore, sensitizes us to what is truly beautiful in life.

Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.

Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions.

Our greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin.

Our greatest illusion is disillusion. We imagine that we are disillusioned with life, when the truth is that we have not even begun to live.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

Our very sexual identities are artifices and illusions, the result of a lifetime of striving.

Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use words to construct a better world, a fictitious world that enables us to sign a pact for a permanent and comprehensive peace ... with life.

Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions.

Pressure is an illusion, but I like that illusion of pressure.

"Pursuit of happiness" implies that we're running after happiness and happiness is running away from us. It also implies that happiness is somewhere out there, in material goods, which we have to pursue, whereas I believe that it is an illusion happiness is not out there, it is within us.