Illusion Quotes
Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidest and most pernicious illusion.
Within the body there is played Music unending, though without stringed instruments That music of the Word pervades the entire creation Who listens to it is freed from all illusion
I think many people have an illusion of success based on entering in at a level that's higher than their experiences.
We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.
The sky is like a monochromatic contemporay painting, drawing me in its illusion of depth, pulling me up.
There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, Theres nothing true but Heaven.
And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.
Make peace with guilt. Guilt is a poisonous illusion. Many languages don't even have a word for guilt.
People are under the illusion that it's easy...Technically, it is complex. You have a million options with equipment to distract you. I tell my students to simplify their equipment.
The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.
The choreographer and the dancer must remember that they reach the audience through the eye. It's the illusion created which convinces the audience, much as it is with the work of a magician.
It's so easy to lie. What’s even worse is how we cling to those lies. We beg for the illusion so we don’t have to face the truth, don’t have to feel alone.
Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.
The idea that political freedom can be preserved in the absence of economic freedom, and vice versa, is an illusion. Political freedom is the corollary of economic freedom.
I realized that if I was going to achieve anything in life I had to be aggressive. I had to get out there and go for it... I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it's an illusion to me.
The self is fundamentally an illusion arising as a reflection of the soul in matter, much as a clear lake at midnight reflects the moon.
Faith is essentially intolerant ... essentially because necessarily bound up with faith is the illusion that one's cause is also God's cause.
What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.
Now that you've reached everything, you must slay this illusion without slaying it - without becoming caught up in the illusion of slaying illusions.
I am the Mindfreak, there's no Reality! Just this World of Illusion that keeps on haunting me.
A life that is truly lived is constantly burning away the veils of illusion, gradually revealing the essence of the individual.
Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is - and not so much a matter of being real.
It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.
A photograph is a photograph, a picture, an image, an illusion complete within itself, depending neither on words, reproductive processes or anything else for its life, its reason for being.
The democratic concept of man is false, because it is Christian. The democratic concept holds that . . . each man is a sovereign being. This is the illusion, dream, and postulate of Christianity.
The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told by an idiot mathematician.
If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
The illusion of life is crucial for the work, otherwise the ideas wouldn't be able to jump across, people wouldn't engage with it.
Any fear is an illusion. You think something is standing in your way, but nothing is really there. What is there is an opportunity to do your best and gain some success.
Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need.
