Illusion Quotes

Love is supposed to bring you peace and happiness. If you are not feeling this in a relationship, you are living an illusion.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education.

We are eternal. All this pain is an illusion.

Everything is an illusion.

Once the truth is denied to human beings, it is pure illusion to try to set them free. Truth and freedom either go together hand in hand or together they perish in misery.

There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

Magic lives in curves, not angles.

The only thing that endures is character. Fame and wealth-all that is illusion. All that endures is character.

Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow.

When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.

Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot

I see the world as an illusion, and we shouldn't take ourselves so seriously

Illusions only control you when you think they are real.

The sun never sets. It is only an appearance due to the observer's limited perspective. And yet, what a sublime illusion it is.

...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion.

Change is eminent, control is an illusion, but dreams are eternal. Believe in your dreams!

We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane.

In the long run, it is far more dangerous to adhere to illusion than to face what the actual fact is.

Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality.

Single vision produces worse illusions than double vision or many-headed monsters.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

That which is seen and that which is touched are of a dream-like and illusion-like nature. Because feeling arises together with the mind, it is not [ultimately] perceived.

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead.

If we have no other reality beyond the illusion, you too must not count overmuch on your reality as you feel it today, since, like that of yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

It is necessary for the mind to become free of the illusions of this world and become a fine and marvelous instrument of the Inner Being.

Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality.

We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.

God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with.

Life is beautiful. Really, it is. Full of beauty and illusions. Life is great. Without it, you'd be dead.

We wake from one dream into another dream.

A poor girl may have an illusion that a prince will come and fetch her home. It is possible, some such cases have occurred. That the Messiah will come and found a golden age is much less probable.

No battle is ever won ... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.

If you hold on to the handle, it's easier to maintain the illusion of control. But it's more fun if you just let the wind carry you.

Without justice and love, peace will always be a great illusion.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.

I'm not under too much of an illusion of how smart or un-smart I am because filmmaking ultimately is about teamwork.

I prefer to be someone who has to confront his many fears instead of someone who has the illusion he doesn't fear anything

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidest and most pernicious illusion.

Government [is] an illusion the governed should not encourage.

A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.

Watergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality.

Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love.

It is an illusion to think that the matter can be resolved through words.