Best 1021 quotes in «illusion quotes» category

The superior thing ... was to be late. Lateness showed that serene contempt for the illusion we call time which is so necessary to ensure the respect of others and oneself. Only the servile are punctual.

The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.

The wind shifts like this: Like a human without illusions, Who still feels irrational things within her.

The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.

The worlds of Truth (love) and illusion (fear) are like parallel universes; with every thought we make a choice which one to inhabit

The world, life and human beings are only an illusion, a phantom, a dream image.

They filled us full of false illusions and promiscuity, and they led us down that class-less road of mediocrity.

This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing.

This craving for health, wealth, long life, and the like - the so - called good - is nothing but an illusion.

The trick was looking past the illusion, because the exit was never as far away as it seemed.

Those who seek education in the paths of duty are always deceived by the illusion that power in the hands of friends is an advantage to them.

This world is nothing. An illusion. Death is the release.

This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.

Time isn't precious at all, because it is an illusion.

Time is an illusion-to orators.

Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is

Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.

Till we attain immortality, all life will remain just an illusion!

Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.

To believe that will has power over potentiality, that the passage to actuality is the result of a decision that puts an end to the ambiguity of potentiality (which is always potentiality to do and not to do) — this is the perpetual illusion of morality.

Time is the supreme illusion. It is but the inner prism by which we decompose being and life, the mode under which we perceive successively what is simultaneous in idea.

To be boosted by an illusion is not to live better than to live in harmony with the truth ... these refusals to part with a decayed illusion are really an infection to the mind.

To have the illusion of selfhood simply means that when you look in the mirror, you see somebody.

Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.

To love is to recognize yourself in another. The others "otherness" then stands revealed as an illusion pertaining to the purely human realm, the realm of form.

To endure life remains, when all is said, the first duty of all living being Illusion can have no value if it makes this more difficult for us.

Trump's junk economics is the illusion that if we cut the taxes on the wealthiest brackets, it'll all trickle down. But it doesn't trickle down.

Truth is only an illusion we have forgotten is an illusion.

[T]ruth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred

Tradition is the illusion of permanance.

Truth is simple, but Illusion makes it infinitely intricate. The person is rare who possesses an insatiable longing for Truth; the rest allow Illusion to bind them ever more and more.

truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors that have become worn-out and deprived of their sensuous force, coins that have lost their imprint and are now no longer seen as coins but as metal.

War is being reminded that you are completely at the mercy of death at every moment, without the illusion that you are not. Without the distractions that make life worth living.

Watergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality.

Was it possible in any relationship to not disappoint, to do anything more than only briefly rekindle the initial fatal illusion?

Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love.

We actually allow ourselves to choose to have different experiences and to liberate ourselves to see past the illusion, past the fear of that fear, which is very strongly embedded in us as a part of the illusion here.

We all have our little illusions about our own mental abilities.

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time

We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.

We are eternal. All this pain is an illusion.

We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.

We enjoy this illusion of continuity and we call it memory. Which explains, perhaps, why our worst fear isn't the end of life, but the end of memories

We can start accessing a new way of being, a freedom of our spirit, and we can align more to that sacredness. When we hold on to the illusion, we cannot really perceive ourselves within that sacredness.

We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.

We manufacture anger to give ourselves the illusion of power when we feel weak and helpless.

We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane.

We insist that society should conform to our own subjective illusion of reality.

We must escape our illusions of correctness to understand the actions and beliefs of others.

We must shed the illusion that we can deliberately 'create the future of mankind'