Illusion Quotes

The death of an illusion tends to disconcert.

The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

Our greatest illusion is disillusion. We imagine that we are disillusioned with life, when the truth is that we have not even begun to live.

I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the world around me, the better company I am for myself.

In my youth I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them.

There's nothing to fear but fear itself. It's an illusion of fear. Fear is an illusion. If you gonna die, you gonna die anyway; it's not something to fear, fear is not gonna help.

I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.

Reality is an illusion that occurs due to the lack of alcohol.

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.

We must escape our illusions of correctness to understand the actions and beliefs of others.

If the theme is simple, you can include a hundred details that create the illusion of actuality better.

I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion which passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.

Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.

Beauty is the result of clarity and system and not of optical illusion.

Maturity is a series of shattered illusions.

I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse.

How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.

Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.

Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea.

Being a star doesn't last. That's not what life should be about. It's a complete illusion that really has nothing to do with you. For me, finding out about life is the most important thing.

I learnt that fame is an illusion and everything about it is just a joke. I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all.

What the neurology tells us is that the self consists of many components, and the notion of one unitary self may well be an illusion.

There are other relations besides reality, which the mind is capable of grasping and which also are primary, like chance, illusion, the fantastic, the dream.

Disneyland would be a world of Americans, past and present, seen through the eyes of my imagination--a place of warmth and nostalgia, of illusion and color and delight.

Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it.

I don't think you can shock an audience anymore. Me cutting my head off is a great illusion, but when you turn on CNN and there's a guy really getting his head cut off, it does dilute what I did.

You poor, deluded woman...do you believe there is any such thing as love?...You're living an illusion. Do you believe the words of love they whisper in the ears of penniless women like us?

The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by excluding moral truths and personal responsibility.

Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils.

What you wish for, what you most hope for - that is your greatest illusion.

An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time

What is society but an individual? [] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean called the world.

There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion - a false hope.

Adulthood brings with it a pernicious illusion of control.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Is not this world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.

When someone says 'I'm so disillusioned', I say 'Congratulations! You've lost another illusion.'

When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

We are not disillusioned because we have no illusions... What we have and what is our strength, is our joy in life... in all its amoral aspects. That is also the basis of our contemporary art.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience and Infinite love is the only truth; everything else is an illusion.

As far as I can see, it's not important that we have free will, just as long as we have the illusion of free will to stop us going mad.

The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.

After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.

These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly. Fashion is about dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women.

Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion.