Illusion Quotes - page 7

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true. (Socrates)
No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere. View quote
Sigmund Freud
A poor girl may have an illusion that a prince will come and fetch her home. It is possible, some such cases have occurred. That the Messiah will come and found a golden age is much less probable. View quote
Sigmund Freud
But just make someone who has fallen in love listen to his stomach rumble, and the unity of body and soul, that lyrical illusion of the age of science, instantly fades away. View quote
Milan Kundera
He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
However much you paid for a beautiful illusion, you got a bargain. View quote
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
There was a great director who directed a picture that I wrote who barred me from the set- quite appropriately- and said, "I'm sorry, Jim. When you're directing, you don't need to know everything. You need the illusion that you do.” And, you know, and I WOULD be there- behind him trying to signal the actors in, you know, in a way I wasn't even aware of. View quote
James L. Brooks
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth. View quote
René Daumal
Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important. View quote
Colum McCann
The drama of the sky dance is enacted nightly on hundreds of farms, the owners of which sigh for entertainment, but harbor the illusion that it is to be sought in theaters. They live on the land, but not by the land. View quote
Aldo Leopold
...Every single one of us goes through life depending on and bound by our individual knowledge and awareness. And we call it reality. However, both knowledge and awareness are equivocal. One's reality might be another's illusion. We all live inside our own fantasies, don't you think? (Masashi Kishimoto)
This modernizing experiment seems to have something diabolic about it. Everything that was becomes rejected in the name of a modernity that assumes the nature of a fiction, an illusion, a devilish apparition. To a greater or lesser extent this applies to all the postcommunist countries. View quote
Andrzej Stasiuk
Was not the arbitrary distinction between illusion and reality the ultimate illusion itself? View quote
Norman Spinrad
Our greatest illusion is disillusion. We imagine that we are disillusioned with life, when the truth is that we have not even begun to live. View quote
Paul Brunton
The whole thing's illusion, [Jacob], and there's nothing wrong with that. It's what people want from us. It's what they expect. View quote
Sara Gruen
When two people dream the same dream, it ceases to be an illusion. View quote
Philip K. Dick
Everything is an illusion; that is the whole thing about it - illusion, immitation, a mirage. It makes me too sad. Its having like a good dream, you know you are going to wake up. View quote
Francesca Lia Block
The security light made me feel safe, though I knew that was an illusion. If there's light, you can just see what's coming for you a little more clearly. View quote
Charlaine Harris
Do not waste time trying to overcome your weaknesses and failures. Simply raise your consciousness, transcend and free your thoughts from limitation and illusion, and find within the very center of your being a wholeness and completeness! Cease wallowing in your imperfections and never accept limitations! Aim high, and you will get there. It is only your thoughts that hold you back. View quote
Eileen Caddy
There's simply no polite way to tell people they've dedicated their lives to an illusion. View quote
Daniel Dennett
Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us. (Daniel Dennett)
But what I wanted back had never really been there. He was a temporary illusion, a mirage of water after walking in the desert. I had made him up. And he could have killed me. You've got to stop the ride sometimes. Stop it and get off. View quote
Deb Caletti
I couldn't fault her for believing, because I had to imagine i was nice to have that illusion still intact. View quote
David Levithan
As I've said, freedom is really an illusion. Anytime we think we have a real choice, it just means we haven't seen the shotgun aimed at our navel. View quote
Jeff Lindsay
... I know all about myself now, I know. You've told me so often. You haven't left me one rag of illusion to clothe myself in. View quote
Jean Rhys