Illusion Quotes

The illusion of randomness gradually disappears as the skill in chart reading improves.

When life attains a crisis, man’s focus narrows. […] The world becomes a stage of immediate concern, swept free of illusion.

There’s no cure for ugly, but you can make yourself into a human optical illusion.

If you are liberated then you can be in the crowd and there is no crowd. You can be surrounded by the world and their is no world. You have shattered the prism of illusion.

We are the fingertips of blind illusion, You are the absolute Cause of causes.

The nature of illusion is that, when you see through it, it disappears.

There is no fire like passion. There are no chains like hate. Illusion is a net, Desire is a rushing river.

Soup not only warms you and is easy to swallow and to digest, it also creates the illusion in the back of your mind that Mother is there.

Reason is the illusion of reality

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

We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.

Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck.

In the society of illusion, reality must manifest itself. The story songs of Joel Rafael are that manifestation... the essence of minstrel.

the most all-around, practical, long-wearing illusions are the ones that you weave yourself.

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.

I have few illusions: the cause is lost in advance. As for me, I do my part, which is to drag a fairly drab existence to its conclusion.

Everything that you are or conceive of yourself as being is just an idea. It's an illusion. It's a hallucination.

I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

The great human problem of evil stems from the illusion of separateness. Whenever this illusion is overcome, we behave lovingly to one another.

The only freedom is freedom from illusion.

Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

God alone is real, and all else is illusion.

Beauty is a question of optics. All sight is illusion.

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.

I broke down all conclusions into illusions and confusions.

The worlds of Truth (love) and illusion (fear) are like parallel universes; with every thought we make a choice which one to inhabit

[T]ruth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.

Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief.

When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.

Its really easy to get colors right. Its really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a color but its also an illusion.

We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us.

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.

Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.

Purity is an illusion. The idea of purity has been used as an excuse for calamities like honor killings, bride burnings, child molestation. Purification is genocide.

We manufacture anger to give ourselves the illusion of power when we feel weak and helpless.

Truth is simple, but Illusion makes it infinitely intricate. The person is rare who possesses an insatiable longing for Truth; the rest allow Illusion to bind them ever more and more.

Free will and consciousness is an illusion, and the self is a complex of memes.

How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.

I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.

The painter's only solid ground is the palette and colors, but as soon as the colors achieve an illusion, they are no longer judged.

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

Limits, like fear, is often an illusion.

I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and I'm proud of it.