Illusion Quotes

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

One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.

An illusion dissipated is an experience gained.

The mental never influences the physical. It is always the physical that modifies the mental, and when we think that the mind is diseased, it is always an illusion.

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.

Gone is the blinding glow in his hands - gone, too, is the illusion of purity and beauty! In it's place all that remains is mind-numbing, spine-chilling reality!

Through being "right", you feel superior and through feeling superior you strengthen your sense of self. In reality, of course, you are only strengthening the illusion of ego.

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.

You see, in recent history, the Democrat party has created the illusion that their agenda and their policies are what's best for black people.

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

Action is thought tempered by illusion.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned my whole life, time and age are but an illusion.

What we have in common is a mass men, a mass bureaucracy, and a manipulation of everyone to act smoothly, but with the illusion that he follows his own decisions and opinions.

I am fully conscious that a complete presentation of the regions visited is a task beyond my power. All I can strive to do is convey an illusion-my own illusion

None of this is real. All of this is an illusion and your acceptance of that fact is the beginning of the pathway to self-knowledge.

Once we've achieved perfect meditation, we're terribly trapped because that's an illusion...any enlightenment that seems ultimate is an illusion.

Each individual has to burn out his own karma and escape from the chains of maya (illusion), reincarnation, and all that.

If the Internet can be described as a giant human consciousness, then viral marketing is the illusion of free will.

Communism has been the greatest and bloodiest illusion that humanity ever bore.

I don't think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic.

Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West.

We line our lives with beautiful things to create a cushion of stability: the illusion of a cohesive past, the promise of an unclouded future.

A woman should be an illusion

It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism.

The motion of the stars over our heads is as much an illusion as that of the cows, trees and churches that flash past the windows of our train.

If I live by illusions, you live by excuses.

The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion will live here in only the most temporary way.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace.

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.

Freedom is an illusion. It always comes at a price.

And what would happen to my illusion that I am a force for order in the home if I wasn't married to the only man north of the Tiber who is even untidier than I am?

I open myself genuinely to all people by being willing to fully communicate my deepest feelings, since hiding in any degree keep me stuck in my illusion of separateness from other people.

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

People in this day and age are still under the illusion that every woman who is successful must be being controlled by a man... I'm the boss.

Forgiving the past means remembering the love there, and releasing all the rest as the illusion that it really was.

Even mud gives the illusion of depth.

Life is real, and death is the illusion.

I began to feel that if religion was either an illusion or a revelation, it was simpler to accept it as an illusion.

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

But just make someone who has fallen in love listen to his stomach rumble, and the unity of body and soul, that lyrical illusion of the age of science , instantly fades away.

I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend... I can pretend that things last.

Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.

The illusion of design is so successful that to this day most Americans (including, significantly, many influential and rich Americans) stubbornly refuse to believe it is an illusion.

'Grand Illusion' and 'Rules of the Game' are routinely included on lists of the greatest films, and deserve to be.

We're all travelling heavy with illusions.

All that happens is the cause of all that happens. Causes are numberless; the idea of a sole cause is an illusion.

The art of illusion is grace itself.

The closure of the book is an illusion largely created by its materiality, its cover. Once the book is considered on the plane of its significance, it threatens infinity.

A fierce brief fusion which dreamers call real, and realists, an illusion; an insight like the flight of birds.

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.