Illusion Quotes

How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be studied as a notorious mass illusion.

Realizing that nothing can last, that all is as dreamlike illusion.

What an illusion Mahamaya has conjured up! Here is this infinite world, and what one claims as his possession will be left behind at death. Still men cannot understand this simple truth.

Because it corresponds to a vital need, love is overvalued in our culture. It becomes a phantom - like success - carrying with it the illusion that it is a solution for all problems.

Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.

Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who give this power to them.

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

Nothing real stands between you and your happiness, only illusion and confusion.

If you see the illusion you are enlightened, but if you think that you are enlightened you are in the illusion!

Where the Old Masters created an illusion of space into which one could imagine walking, the illusion created by a Modernist is one into which one can look, can travel through, only with the eye.

Ash Wednesday is full of joy...The source of all sorrow is the illusion that of ourselves we are anything but dust.

Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.

As long as we prioritize material truths over spiritual truths we will live in tyranny because we are living an illusion

I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake.

The greatest illusion is that mankind has limitations.

Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish.

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

Feel not as though it is a sphere we live on. Rather, an infinite plane which has the illusion of leading yourself back to the point of origin.

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

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.

Illusion is no longer possible, because the real is no longer possible.

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

Originality is merely an illusion.

But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most... he saw fireflies where there were none.

All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.

When you are free from delusion, you can enjoy illusion. Enjoy the dream but enjoy the dream being free.

The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.

Project management is the art of creating the illusion that any outcome is the result of a series of predetermined, deliberate acts when, in fact, it was dumb luck.

Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.

Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy.

Reality is an illusion created by a lack of alcohol.

Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.

Every perception of color is an illusion, we do not see colors as they really are. In our perception they alter one another.

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

If you alter or obscure the Biblical portrait of God in order to attract converts, you don't get converts to God, you get converts to an illusion. This is not evangelism, but deception.

Personal, inner change without a change in circumstances and structures is an idealist illusion, as though man were only a soul and not a body as well.

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.

Everything is just electricity and magnetism; everything is only an illusion. The reality is in the spiritual plane.

The role of television is the illusion of company, noise. I call it the fifth wall and the second window: the window of illusion.

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

As soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency.

I’ve learned that fear is simply an illusion based on past experiences that we project into the present and onto the future.

A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

The economic illusion is the belief that social justice is bad for economic growth.

More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.

The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.

Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.

Love is supposed to bring you peace and happiness. If you are not feeling this in a relationship, you are living an illusion.

Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.