Illusion Quotes

The root of evil is in the illusion that we are bodies. This, if any, is the original sin.

free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight.

Corporate principles and military principles are basically the same. Insulation. Illusion. Hype. Activity.

When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.

Everything appears to me to be authored, in some strange way. And I wonder if this is not the spreading assumption of the psychedelic illusion/delusion/revelation that life is in fact art.

The business of the dramatist is to keep himself out of sight, and to let nothing appear but his characters. As soon as he attracts notice to his personal feelings, the illusion is broken.

Humility sets us free to do what is really good, by showing us our illusions and withdrawing our will from what was only an apparent good.

The center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth.

Did I choose this life of illusion? Don't be mad. My bed was made, I just lied in it.

Suffering dispels the illusion that we have the strength and competence to rule our own lives and save ourselves.

Most magic is a trick, an illusion. But [when The Beatles played the Ed Sullivan Show], this was real. Man oh man, was it real.

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

As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that.

Maybe anything that anybody ever has is for now. What happened before is gone, and what will happen later is an illusion.

There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater.

That's the question: is truth an illusion, or is illusion truth, or are they essentially the same? Myself, I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.

As far as the illusion of the fame, yes, I can definitely appreciate it.

You cannot escape one infinite, I told myself, by fleeing to another. You cannot escape the revelation of the identical by taking refuge in the illusion of the multiple.

The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause.

Enlightenment says the world is nothing Nothing but a dream, everything's an illusion And nothing is real.

So many people seem to imagine that because the actual tools of writing are easily accessible, it is less difficult than the other arts. This is entirely an illusion.

Illusions as bad as mine make people aware of the fallacies of visual information and the pleasure to be derived from such fallacies.

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

The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.

"Fun to drive" is a pleasant illusion in most places robustly inhabited where "safe to drive" makes much more sense.

When self-important people and powerful institutions are governed by illusion, history has a way of biting back.

Wisdom is not having illusions, especially anything in your own mind that elevates you above others.

What is actually happening is often less important than what appears to be happening.

The problem is, when you're making an animated movie, the studio has an illusion in their minds - and it's really not true - that because it's a drawing, it can be changed at any time.

Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of ones own resources.

Knowledge kills action action requires the veils of illusion.

Time is an illusion of life the life of the past and the future clouds men from the true life of the present.

Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.

It is for this reason that we find that co-existence, which could neither be intime alone, for time has no contiguity, nor in space alone, forspace has no before, after, or now,

An illusion can become a half-truth, a mask can alter the expression of a face.

Emotion arise from Desire, hence an Illusion.

It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature.

One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion

Greater than all the joysOf heaven and earth, Greater still than dominionOver all the worlds, Is the joy of reaching the stream.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition oft got without merit and lost without deserving.

When we are healthy, wealthy and powerful, we forget about our mortality. It’s only when irreparable cracks set in that we come back to reality.

Survival is an ancient dream Life is nothing but an everlasting illusionNothing is RealDon’t believe in illusion, Remember me, I am here …

Time is but an illusion created by beings with limited perception.

Rationality and calm self-determination were one of the great illusions of the universe... in the end, we were all ruled by our passions.

Perhaps, there is no such person who can be called truly free, but only those who can be deemed so by comparison.

Those who look outside can only see an illusion. Those who look inside may see the reality.

Truth hides behind the curtain of illusion. We often get lost in illusion and forget to find the truth.

Reality is a perceptual illusion we have accepted as truth.

Looking aroundthere is nothing but illusionEverything is drownedin the oceans of illusion

To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.