Illusion Quotes

The saddest illusion of the revolutionary is that revolution itself will transform the nature of human beings.

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.

Humility does not live in the prison of illusion that says that this world is a dark and terrible place. Those perceptions are phantoms; everything is eternity, God, divine.

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.

Control is an illusion.

In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.

It is the illusion of all lovers to think themselves unique and their words immortal.

The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels.

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

Fame is an illusion. Things can be given to you quite easily, but they get ripped away so quickly as well.

The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth,--that is the secret of the fine arts.

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness.

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

I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler.

The illusion of skill is not only an individual aberration; it is deeply ingrained in the culture of the [investment management] industry.

By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors.

Nada is found within. It is a music without strings which plays in the body. It penetrates the inner and outer and leads you away from illusion.

My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to create the illusion? Let em wonder. I never believed in giving them too much of me.

Retirement is an illusion. Not a reward but a mantrap. The bankrupt underside of success. A shortcut to death. Golf courses are too much like cemeteries.

The illusion of magic is an idealistic fantasy; it exists only in the imagination of the spectator.

Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.

If choices and decisions derive from hidden mental processes, then free choice is either an illusion or, at minimum, more tightly constrained than previously considered.

[...] the inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race [...]

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

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

A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him.

Bright and illustrious illusions!

Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.

Engaging each moment without reservation cuts through the illusion that things could be other than they are.

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

In prison, illusions can offer comfort.

Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.

Anybody who has the illusion that you can have a career as long as I have and be a star is kidding themselves.

The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of our consciousness.

Sin creates the illusion of freedom. In the end it fools us into seeking freedom from God rather than finding freedom in God.

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.

Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.

Music is a big factor in helping the illusion of the film come to life. The same way music brings back different periods of our lives.

When it appears that there is no choice, some form of illusion is operating.

Without being in constant exchange with the rest of the cosmos, you cannot exist. The idea of individuality is an illusion.

If you can create even the illusion of high profitability for a few years, then when the thing collapses you can walk out of the wreckage a very rich man.

It's easy to operate under the illusion that what we are doing is so important we cannot stop doing it. ... Stopping is a spiritual act. It is the refuge where we drink life in.

To me, the art of movies is to take a two-dimensional image and give the illusion of depth.

We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it.

...it is not for the illusion of a moment to govern the choice of a lifetime.

Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.

Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that - thoughts.

There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.

The key is for the audience never to know, so I have a plan B for every illusion.