Illusion Quotes

Cheap medical care is one of the most expensive things there is. So long as politicians can create the illusion of something for nothing, that gets them votes, which is what it is all about, as far as they are concerned.

Intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unreal trick and reality into a play.

Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

Limits, like fear, is often an illusion.

We desire to understand the world by giving names to the things we see, but these things are only the effects of something subtle.

I couldn't tell fact from fiction, Or if the dream was true My only sure prediction In this world was you. I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost.

I know every numbskull will babble on about "black man," "maneater," "chance," and "retrospective interpretation," in order to banish something terribly inconvenient that might sully the familiar picture of childhood innocence. Ah, these good, efficient, healthy-minded people, they always remind me of those optimistic tadpoles who bask in a puddle in the sun, in the shallowest of waters, crowding together and amiably wriggling their tails, totally unaware that the next morning the puddle will have dried up and left them stranded.

All is but illusion and disaster.

Well, I’ve had my fun; I’ve had it, he thought, looking up at the swinging baskets of pale geraniums. And it was smashed to atoms—his fun, for it was half made up, as he knew very well; invented, this escapade with the girl; made up, as one makes up the better part of life, he thought—making onself up; making her up; creating an exquisite amusement, and something more. But odd it was, and quite true; all this one could never share—it smashed to atoms.

Time isn't precious at all, because it is an illusion.

You are dreaming your thirst when the water you want is inside the big vein on your neck.

He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at a fair, and witnesses the performance twice or thrice in succession. The tricks were meant to be seen only once; and when they are no longer a novelty and cease to deceive, their effect is gone.

The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than a motivation of man's wish to rest for a moment an attempt to falsify the fact of knowledge, to try to turn the knowledge into the goal.

Success - To rise from the illusion of pursuit to the disillusion of possession.

Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.

I saw many humans on whom there were no clothes. I saw many clothes in which there were no humans.

All I know is reception; I am and I have: but I do not get, and when I fancied I had gotten anything, I found I did not.

When you feel that you are a lonely, put-upon, isolated little stranger confronting all this, you are under the influence of an illusory feeling, because the truth is quite the reverse. You are the whole works, all that there is, and always was, and always has been, and always will be.

Most of our troubles are due to our passionate desire for and attachment to things that we misapprehend as enduring entities.

Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship.

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Society is an illusion to the young citizen. It lies before him in rigid repose, with certain names, men, and institutions, rootedlike oak-trees to the centre, round which all arrange themselves the best they can. But the old statesman knows that society is fluid; there are no such roots and centres; but any particle may suddenly become the centre of the movement, and compel the system to gyrate round it, as every man of strong will, like Pisistratus, or Cromwell, does for a time, and every man of truth, like Plato, or Paul, does forever.

the fire seven times tried this; seven times tried that judgement is that did never choose amiss some there be that shadows kiss; such have but a shadows bliss, there be fool alive, i wis silverd o'er, and so was this Take what wife you will to bed I will ever be your head. So be gone; you are sped.

Isn't it pretty to think so.

If we dreamed the same thing every night, it would affect us much as the objects we see every day. And if a common workman were sure to dream every night for twelve hours that he was a king, I believe he would be almost as happy as a king who should dream every night for twelve hours on end that he was a common workman.

In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.

It's all make believe, isn't it?

For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

One should never know too precisely whom one has married

Yes, I answered you last night; No, this morning, sir, I say: Colors seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day.

The great Big Black Things that have loomed against the horizon of my life, threatening to devour me, simply loomed and nothing more. The things that have really made me miss my train havealways been sweet, soft, pretty, pleasant things of which I was not in the least afraid.

Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a turn as that done to the Athenian madman who was happy in believing that all the ships touching at the port belonged to him.

That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising to be told that it is foolish to seek greatness; that is most remarkable.

It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you... Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

Death changes nothing but the mask that covers our faces.

One may be drunk with love without being any nearer to finding his mate.

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.

Why couldn't the world that concerns us- be a fiction? And if somebody asked, 'but to be a fiction there surely belongs an author?'- couldn't one answer simply: 'Why? Doesn't this "belongs" perhaps belong to the fiction, too?'

There is no deformity But saves us from a dream.

Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

Always discriminate-your body, your house, the people and the world are all absolutely unreal like a dream. Always think that the body is only an inert instrument. And the Atman within is your real nature.

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.

Is this a vision? Is this a dream? Do I sleep?

There's nothing to fear but fear itself. It's an illusion of fear. Fear is an illusion. If you gonna die, you gonna die anyway; it's not something to fear, fear is not gonna help.

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Until we give up the world manufactured by the ego, never can we enter the kingdom of heaven. None ever did, none ever will.

The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.

So you think you've found the solution but it's just another illusion.

Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

The acting that one sees upon the stage does not show how human beings comport themselves in crises, but how actors think they ought to. It is thus, like poetry and religion, a device for gladdening the heart with what is palpably not true.

What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.

Whatever may be your desire to accomplish great deeds, the deep silence of pregnancy never comes to you! The event of the day sweeps you along like straws before the wind whilst ye lie under the illusion that ye are chasing the event,-poor fellows! If a man wishes to act the hero on the stage he must not think of forming part of the chorus; he should not even know how the chorus is made up.

By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.