Illusion Quotes - page 6

Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream. (Aristophanes)
I fell victim to the temptation of every autobiographer, to the illusion that since the past exists only in one's memories and the words which strive vainly to encapsulate them, it is possible to create past events simply by saying they occurred. View quote
Salman Rushdie
Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
Communism has been the greatest and bloodiest illusion that humanity ever bore. View quote
Gianfranco Fini
The "end of a world” never is and never can be anything but the end of an illusion. View quote
René Guénon
We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. Presumably the plans for our employment were being changed. I was to learn later in life that, perhaps because we are so good at organizing, we tend as a nation to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization. View quote
Charlton Ogburn
The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. View quote
Daniel J. Boorstin
The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge. View quote
Daniel J. Boorstin
Jefferson refused to pin his hopes on the occasional success of honest and unambitious men; on the contrary, the great danger was that philosophers would be lulled into complacence by the accidental rise of a Franklin or a Washington. Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion. View quote
Daniel J. Boorstin
Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is - and not so much a matter of being real. View quote
Laurence Olivier
I believe that none can "save" his fellow man by making a choice for him. To help him, he can indicate the possible alternatives, with sincerity and love, without being sentimental and without illusion. (Erich Fromm)
Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
Until I discovered the miracle that all things that sound are music, including dishes and silverware in the dishwasher, as long as they fulfill the illusion of showing us where life is heading. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
If a given science accidentally reached its goal, this would by no means stop the workers in the field, who would be driven past their goal by the sheer momentum of the illusion of unlimited progress. View quote
Hannah Arendt
I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury. View quote
Sydney Smith
The Communists, following Hegel, speak of humanity and its future as of some monolithic individuality. I was attacking this illusion. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths. View quote
Aleksandr Pushkin
Societies held together by fear and repression may offer the illusion of stability for a time, but they are built upon fault lines that will eventually tear asunder. View quote
Barack Obama
The present age... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence... for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane. View quote
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
The disparagement of empirical evidence in favor of a metaphysical world of illusion has its origin in the conflict between the emancipated individual of bourgeois society and his fate within that society. View quote
Max Horkheimer
There is an unbroken chain of opposition to the introduction of economic freedom and to the capitalist autonomy of the economic sphere... In every case the opposition could only be overcome - peacefully or by force - because of the promise of capitalism to establish equality... That this promise was an illusion we all know. (Peter Drucker)
Routine feeds the illusion of safety. View quote
Christopher Moore (author)
If the theme is simple, you can include a hundred details that create the illusion of actuality better. View quote
Satyajit Ray
There is something within me that might be illusion as it is often case with young delighted people, but if I would be fortunate to achieve some of my ideals, it would be on the behalf of the whole of humanity. If those hopes would become fulfilled, the most exciting thought would be that it is a deed of a Serb. View quote
Nikola Tesla
For one of those gnostics, the visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges