Illusion Quotes - page 4

My illusion is to have something to transmit. If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it. (Antoni Tàpies)
The metaphysics of substance. The strange feeling which comes over us when we sense: this is skin – this is bone – all in a single vision that is completely unearthly. The dreaminess of our existence mixed at the same time with the indescribably sweet illusion of reality. View quote
Max Beckmann
Every perception of colour is an illusion.. ..we do not see colours as they really are. In our perception they alter one another. View quote
Josef Albers
Nowledge which... transcends the bounds, the prejudices and prejudgements of any one society and culture is not an illusion but, on the contrary, a glorious and luminous reality. Just how it was achieved remains subject to debate. View quote
Ernest Gellner
For valuing your own suffering sets on it the gold of a sun of pride. Suffering a lot can originate the illusion of being the Chosen of Pain. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous. View quote
Elie Wiesel
On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama. View quote
Henry Miller
A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him. View quote
Edward Sapir
Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
All of our punishment institutions, including jails, laws, church confessionals, and so forth, are systems of illusion. The order of the universe, the infinite justice of yin and yang, naturally takes care of all motion and compensation. We don't need to invent arbitrary ways to make balance with punishments. View quote
Michio Kushi
Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other. Which is what I do every day. An apparently ineffectual operation, since I must begin all over again the next day. (Emil Cioran)
At the edge of life you feel that you are no longer master of the life within you, that subjectivity is an illusion, and that uncontrollable forces are seething inside you, evolving with no relation to a personal center or a definite, individual rhythm. View quote
Emil Cioran
You'd think people would realize they're bad at multitasking and would quit. But a cognitive illusion sets in, fueled in part by a dopamine-adrenaline feedback loop, in which multitaskers think they are doing great. View quote
Daniel Levitin
Each part of the mind sees only a little of what happens in some others, and that little is swiftly refined, reformulated and "represented." We like to believe that these fragments have meanings in themselves - apart from the great webs of structure from which they emerge - and indeed this illusion is valuable to us qua thinkers - but not to us as psychologists - because it leads us to think that expressible knowledge is the first thing to study. View quote
Marvin Minsky
There is no coincidence. Only the illusion of coincidence. View quote
Alan Moore
The mental never influences the physical. It is always the physical that modifies the mental, and when we think that the mind is diseased, it is always an illusion. View quote
Claude Bernard
As people age, they confuse changes in themselves with changes in the world, and changes in the world with moral decline-the illusion of the good old days. View quote
Steven Pinker
If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that's necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom. View quote
B. F. Skinner
It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false. View quote
Pierre Bayle
The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno. View quote
Italo Svevo
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. (Iris Murdoch)
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. View quote
Anaïs Nin
"Consciousness,” according to current scientific thought, was something the higher mammals had evolved in order to help them reproduce, much the way a garden slug secretes slime. It had no special ontological status. The "self” was a genetically modulated and biologically useful illusion. View quote
Robert Charles Wilson
Thus, the distance between any two galaxies increases in time, creating the illusion of mechanical motion. But in reality, galaxies just sit there, contemplating the spectacle of the universe creating more and more space in between them. View quote
João Magueijo
Male mastery in marriage is a social illusion, nurtured by women exhorting their creations to play and walk. At the emotional heart of every marriage is a pietà of mother and son. View quote
Camille Paglia