Illusion Quotes

Love will never be ideal until man recovers from the illusion that he can be just a little bit faithful or a little bit married.

Tonglen practice begins to dissolve the illusion that each of us is alone with this personal suffering that no one else can understand.

Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous.

It is an illusion to think that [EU] states can hold on to their autonomy.

Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the illusion of time and life.

No one thinks Las Vegas is real; it is illusion, but visitors willingly suspend disbelief and pretend.

We are all illusionists and that's why we are attracted to drag queens. This whole world is an illusion. It's not real.

Like the actor, authority has faith in its false whiskers. But its deepest faith is in the human illusion. People will hang on to illusion as eagerly as life itself.

I think that the Oscar gives you some kind of guts or something, it gives you the illusion that you can do it. It's good for business.

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

The reason the factions were evil is because there was no way out of them. They gave us the illusion of choice without actually giving us a choice.

Men have the illusion of having a duty to make the world spin properly, which is precisely what makes it wobble.

Control is an illusion. You will never be able to control anything, any situation, or anyone without consent. So in actuality there is no control, there is only consent!

All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged. What is meant by God-realization is to actually experience this important thing that the soul is eternal.

Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.

Gaga is an entertainer, so a hat for her is part of the illusion of entertaining.

What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.

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.

Illusions are hazardous, and so are disillusions.

Whether it is a simulated experience or a dream, the information that exists is all real... and an illusion at the same time.

However, one cannot put a quart in a pint cup.

It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'

The world is not the illusion. It's you who are the illusion.

Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

The illusion is an agreement between the reader and writer that this [story] will be like life. The emotional temperature drops when you have footnotes.

The love is real in any situation; everything else is just an illusion.

A shattered illusion is a sorrowful experience; but a life without illusion is a sorrowful life

But precisely this illusion that everything is "clear" is what is blinding us all. It is a serious temptation, and it is a subtle form of pride and worldly love of power and revenge.

Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.

We don't believe other people's experiences can tell us all that much about our own. I think this is an illusion of uniqueness.

There is an illusion that has much to do with... most of our unhappiness.... We expect too much.

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.

Owning things is an obsession in our culture. If we own it, we feel we can control it; and if we control it, we feel it will give us more pleasure. The idea is an illusion.

I'd always wanted to do these types of things - pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it.

You can’t change the world, but you can change yourself. That adage suits consumer capitalism perfectly, since the illusion of changing ourselves is a successfully maintained through shopping.

I was sort of caught up in my own web of illusion.

I'm the luckiest man in the world - performing 500 shows a year and loving what I do - illusion IS my day to day life.

Although our package of skin and bones looks very convincing, it is a mask, an illusion, disguising our true self, which has no limitations.

Insight enables you to know your own heart. Clarity enables you to accept without illusion.

Don't torment yourself with jealousy. It's a silly illusion that someone's life is better than yours when the truth is that each one of us is on a different path.

It is an illusion to suppose that a Dictator makes himself; at most he seizes an opportunity made for him by passive, stupid, incompetent, and above all, unsatisfied and fearful men.

Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.

Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?

When illusions are shattered by truth, talent is set free.

One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance. All sorts of things.

Winston Churchill is always expecting rabbits to come out of an empty hat.

All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged.

The world could be anything, you know, It could be a solid state matrix of some sort. It could be an illusion. It could be a dream. I mean it really could be a dream.

I recently got into Haiku in Japan and I just think it's fantastic. Obviously, when you get rid of a whole section of illusion in your mind you're left with great precision.

I don't work under the illusion that I'm the next whatever. Every time a record comes out, if it gets a good review, I'm like, "Well, one more year, guys. We bought ourselves another year".