Illusions Quotes

Illusions Quote of the day

We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement.

Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.

The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion

Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life

Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.

The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.

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

Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone.

You will not find in semantics any remedy for decayed teeth or illusions of grandeur or class conflict.

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

Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours.

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

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

There are optical illusions in time as well as space.

To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?

The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.

Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that you take them for the pillars of a palace.

Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.

Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.

Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.

I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves.

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.

War is being reminded that you are completely at the mercy of death at every moment, without the illusion that you are not. Without the distractions that make life worth living.

Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another!

Are you looking for something real in this world of illusions? Call me. Casual Flings need not apply. I am looking for Love.

While I'm frustrated at the amount I'm expected to take on in the present, the 1950s woman was frustrated by being excluded - not being allowed to take things on at all.

Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and on the other in seeing what we believe.

Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.

Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Some people have two full-time jobs: Working to support their lifestyles and creating illusions to impress the society and their peers.

Expectation has brought me disappointment. Disappointment has brought me wisdom. Acceptance, gratitude and appreciation have brought me joy and fulfilment.

There’s no such thing as a good or bad person: there are just people who have each been or seem to have been good or bad to you, someone, or some people, thus far.

Problems are perceptual illusions.

Maybe the truth doesn’t exist if you look the other way.

We all suffer from dreams.

It was a glorious illusion and she fell asleep before it ended.

Dreams, just dreams, it's all illusion

Censorship is alive and well in America.

I got married. A bright past is ahead of me!

Reality is never clear, said Boris. It's never final. You can always change it or see it a different way.

With true beauty, there is no illusion.

Enlightenment is not about attaining an ultimate level of intelligence or intellect. It is regained by shedding all the ideas, illusion and binds thrust on you and that you then so readily accrue.

Enlightenment is not about attaining a ultimate level of intelligence or intellect. It is regained by shedding all the ideas, illusion and binds thrust on you and that you then so readily accrue.

Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves … and other animals.

Death is but a dream and life is merely the daydream of death.

Ideas about our own self-worth are no more real than thoughts about an imaginary chair.