Illusion Quotes
Illusion Quote of the day
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.
It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.
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.
Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized.
The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.
You can’t stop a revolution from breathin’, so to beat ‘em they offer people the illusion of freedom.
If only we can give them faith that mountains can be moved, they will accept the illusion that mountains are moveable, and thus an illusion may become reality.
The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.
Time is just an illusion. What you need is to live this very moment. That is all that matters.
Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen.
If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.
A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.
This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality. Embrace this moment, remember: we are eternal all this pain is an illusion.
We pray because our life comes from God and we yield it back in prayer. Prayer is a great antidote to the illusion that we are self-made.
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Radical acceptance rests on letting go of the illusion of control and a willingness to notice and accept things as they are right now, without judging.
The great cosmic illusion is a hierophany.... One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes in its reality, and therefore forgets or despises eternity.
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.
Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.
There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
A beautiful country is a dream-like illusion. It is senseless to cling to it. Unless the inner forces of negative emotions are conquered, strife with outer enemies will never end.
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Prosperity or egalitarianism -- you have to choose. I favor freedom -- you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.
The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!
The recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and more Soul, to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure in the body into the unchanging calm and glorious freedom of spiritual harmony.
Death is nothing, nor life either, for that matter. To die, to sleep, to pass into nothingness, what does it matter? Everything is an illusion.
I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me . . . Failure always made me try harder next time.
If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t.
One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.
Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion.
There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.
A dolphin's smile is the greatest deception. It creates the illusion that they're always happy.
We expect more from technology and less from each other. We create technology to provide the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.
