Illusion Quotes - page 2

Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion. (David Cronenberg)
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. View quote
Sigmund Freud
What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion. View quote
Max Jacob
Ultimately, it's an illusion that you can understand yourself. View quote
Paul Schrader
The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds. View quote
Charles Cooley
The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion. View quote
Alva Myrdal
Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion. View quote
Tennessee Williams
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched, for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real they are bruised and wounded. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Everything is illusion. Even that last sentence. View quote
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved. View quote
Emil Cioran
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. (Jacque Fresco)
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. View quote
Ludwig Borne
If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also? View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control. View quote
Amy Tan
Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality. View quote
Nicolas Chamfort
Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Free will is an illusion. It is synonymous with incomplete perception. View quote
Robert J. Sawyer
What neurology tells us is that the self consists of many components, and the notion of one unitary self may well be an illusion. View quote
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
I recognize nothing that is not material. In physics, chemistry and biology I see only mechanics. The Universe is nothing but an infinite and complex mechanism. Its complexity is so great that it borders on willfulness, suddenness, and randomness; it gives the illusion of free will possessed by conscious beings. View quote
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion. View quote
Michael Jordan
The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages. (Horace Greeley)
You convinced yourselves we're just a bunch of regular lads who got a bad break in life. Anything else would have cracked your dream open and made you face reality. Illusion is easy. Illusion is the loser's way out. Your way. View quote
Peter F. Hamilton
There is an optical illusion about every person we meet. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying. View quote
Marcel Proust
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion. View quote
Arthur Koestler