Best 1021 quotes in «illusion quotes» category

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

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.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

"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.

[Radical leftist] are never been a majority. We just fell for one of the greatest illusions in modern politics.

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidest and most pernicious illusion.

Reason and religion cannot coexist together. If reason exists, then paradise, prophets and all other religiuous illusions disappear.

Reason dissipates the illusions of life, but does not console us for their departure.

safety and love are both illusions!

Religion is an illusion and every illusion has the inevitable destiny of a soap bubble!

Routine feeds the illusion of safety.

Sanity is an illusion caused by alcohol deficiency.

Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.

Saturday is an illusion.

Seek for the endless life in the world, because with death, there remains neither the seeker nor the sought! The other world is altogether an illusion! Stop deceiving yourself; seek for the endless life in the world!

Sickness is an illusion, to be annihilated by Science.

Seth gave her that: a private space to believe in the illusion of normalcy.

She was wearing the same clothes, but now she looked haggard and dirty. The delicate illusions that get us through life can only stand so much strain.

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.

Simply naming objectives isn't sufficient for a vision. If I say that I'm going to build a large palace, but I don't have any money to do so, then that is not a vision - it's an illusion.

Some illusions...are the shadows of great truths.

Single vision produces worse illusions than double vision or many-headed monsters.

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years.

Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.

So now that the illusion of infinite growth is being exposed, the corresponding ballooning entitlements that enticed the larger public to become complicit in the illusion are becoming unglued.

So much of life was the peeling away of illusions.

So you think you've found the solution but it's just another illusion.

Streetlife serenaders Have no obligations Hold no grand illusions Need no stimulation.

That's the illusion - the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out - and it has affected us in many ways. That's a part of the idea that professing is enough.

Success - To rise from the illusion of pursuit to the disillusion of possession.

Suffering is an illusion.

Suffering dispels the illusion that we have the strength and competence to rule our own lives and save ourselves.

That’s the great illusion of travel, of course, the notion that there’s somewhere to get to. A place where you can finally say, Ah, I’ve arrived. (Of course there is no such place. There’s only a succession of waitings until you go home.)

That's the question: is truth an illusion, or is illusion truth, or are they essentially the same? Myself, I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.

The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.

The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.

The causes of illusions are not pretty to discover. They're either vicious or tragic.

The center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth.

The curious fascination in this job [U.S. representative] is the illusion that either you are being useful or you could be -- and that's so tempting.

The greatest tragedy of human existence is the illusion of separateness.

The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners.

The dilemma of Brechtian performance is that, for all of Brecht's emphasis on rationality and the undermining of theatrical illusion, the actor must convincingly portray something that she is not.

The ‘equilibrium’ that people see in me is really an illusion. I am as flawed as anyone. It’s only that I seem to have the knack of hiding.

The feminine vanity-case is the graveyard of masculine illusions.

The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you. You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest - if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect the envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.

The first lesson a watcher learns is to separate truth from illusion. Because in the world of magics, it's the hardest thing to do.

The fresh start is always an illusion but a necessary one.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.