Illusion Quotes - Page 34

• Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering.

  Alfred de Musset

  Suffering, May, Reason

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• To his sister-in-law: What a contrast between us! You live a warm and glowing life, surrounded by loved ones whom you care for and who care for you; you are anchored in contentment. I drift about without rudder or compass, a wreck on the sea of life; I have no memories to cheer me, no pleasant illusions of the future to comfort me, or about me to satisfy my vanity. I have no family to furnish the only kind of survival that concerns us, no friends for the wholesome development of my affections, or enemies for my malice.

  Alfred Nobel

  Sister, Cheer, Memories

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• This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.

  Edward Abbey

  World, May, This World

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.13, RosettaBooks

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• Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our antimaterialist, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu, and seaweed slime.

  Edward Abbey

  Spiritual, Food, Cooking

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.16, RosettaBooks

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• I've got my laptop, but it troubles me in many ways. I don't have Twitter or Facebook or anything like that. It ruins a romantic idea, which might just be an illusion, a sense of depth or continuity. I know there are lots of positives in the evolution of technology, but I also think it will be responsible for the end of a unique character, of a specific kind of geographical culture. The world is getting so small, and mass production is getting so big. Everything is in danger of becoming the same.

  Laura Marling

  Character, Unique, Technology

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• I hold the view that the alchemist’s hope of conjuring out of matter the philosophical gold, or the panacea, or the wonderful stone, was only in part an illusion, an effect of projection; for the rest it corresponded to certain psychic facts that are of great importance in the psychology of the unconscious. As is shown by the texts and their symbolism, the alchemist projected what I have called the process of individuation into the phenomena of chemical change.

  Carl Jung

  Philosophical, Views, Psychics

  Carl Gustav Jung (1977). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung”, Bollingen

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• The utter failure came at the Crucifixion in the tragic words, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' If you want to understand the full tragedy of those words you must realize what they meant: Christ saw that his whole life, devoted to the truth according to his best conviction, had been a terrible illusion. He had lived it to the full absolutely sincerely, he had made his honest experiment, but it was nevertheless a compensation. On the cross his mission deserted him. But because he had lived so fully and devotedly he won through to the Resurrection body.

  Carl Jung

  Tragedy, Body, Want

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• Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.

  Sigmund Freud

  Religious, Believe, Doctrine

  SIGMUND FREUD “THE FUTURE OF AN ILLUSION”

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• What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes.

  Sigmund Freud

  Wish, Characteristics, Humans

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• The disparagement of empirical evidence in favor of a metaphysical world of illusion has its origin in the conflicy between the emancipated individual of bourgeois society and his fate within that society.

  Max Horkheimer

  Fate, World, Favors

  Max Horkheimer (1972). “Critical Theory: Selected Essays”, p.138, A&C Black

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• Politics and the economy are not things that exist, or illusions, or ideologies. They are things that do not exist and yet which are inscribed in reality and fall under a regime of truth dividing the true and the false.

  Michel Foucault

  Fall, Reality, Economy

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• Even if I have already peaked, I have to believe I can improve. I wake up every morning, and go to practice, with the illusion that I'm going to get better that day.

  Rafael Nadal

  Morning, Believe, Practice

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• We must first realize that dancing is an absolutely independent art, not merely a secondary accompanying one. I believe that it is one of the great arts. . . . The important thing in ballet is the movement itself. A ballet may contain a story, but the visual spectacle . . . is the essential element. The choreographer and the dancer must remember that they reach the audience through the eye. It's the illusion created which convinces the audience, much as it is with the work of a magician.

  George Balanchine

  Art, Believe, Independent

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We favor the simple expression of the complex thought. We are for the large shape because it has the impact of the unequivocal. We wish to reassert the picture plane. We are for flat forms because they destroy illusion and reveal truth.

  Mark Rothko

  Simple, Impact, Expression

  Mark Rothko, Miguel López-Remiro (2006). “Writings on Art”, p.36, Yale University Press

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• Plato spoke of the necessity for divine madness in the poet. It is a frightening thing to open oneself to this strange and dark side of the divine; it means letting go our sane self control, that control which gives us the illusion of safety. But safety is only an illusion, and letting it go is part of listening to the silence, and to the spirit.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Letting Go, Plato, Mean

  FaceBook post by Madeleine L'Engle from Nov 04, 2016

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• Rest forever, tired heart.
  The final illusion has perished.
  The one we believed eternal is gone.
  Just like that. Out the door desire
  follows hope. Rest forever.
  Enough throbbing. Nothing deserves your attention
  nor is the earth worth a sigh.
  Bitterness and boredom is life,
  nothing else ever, and the world is mud.
  Quiet now. Despair for the last time.
  Fate gives us dying as a gift.
  Now turn from the hills, the ugly hidden power
  which rules for the common evil
  and the infinite vanity of it all.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Tired, Heart, Fate

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• My films generally center around thousands of pictures being flashed in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion.

  Lars von Trier

  Film, Rapids, Succession

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• Love thy neighbor as thyself because you are your neighbor. It is illusion that makes you think that your neighbor is someone other than yourself.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  Thinking, Make You Think, Neighbor

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• 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.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Next Day, World, Destroying

  "Drawn and Quartered". Book by Emil Cioran, 1983.

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• The Roman Catholic Church has the unique power of keeping remote control over human souls which have once been part of her. G.K. Chesterton has compared this to the fisherman's line, which allows the fish the illusion of free play in the water and yet has him by the hook; in his own time the fisherman by a 'twitch upon the thread' draws the fish to land.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Unique, Land, Play

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• Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.

  David Copperfield

  Letting Go, Dream, Would Be

  "Photo gallery: David Copperfield begins record run; faces lawsuit". Interview with Robin Leach, www.lasvegasweekly.com. August 20, 2009.

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• I am fortunate to have the resources to have many methods to do each of my illusions.

  David Copperfield

  Resources, Method, Fortunate

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• When I speak of the aspiration towards the beautiful, of the ideal as the ultimate aim of art, which grows from a yearning for that ideal, I am not for a moment suggesting that art should shun the 'dirt' of the world. On the contrary! the artistic image is always a metonym, where one thing is substituted for another, the smaller for the greater. To tell of what is living, the artist uses something dead; to speak of the infinite, he shows the finite. Substitution... the infinite cannot be made into matter, but it is possible to create an illusion of the infinite: the image.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Beautiful, Art, Use

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• There are sacred moments in life when we experience in rational and very direct ways that separation, the boundary between ourselves and other people and between ourselves and Nature, is illusion. Oneness is reality. We can experience that stasis is illusory and that reality is continual flux and change on very subtle and also on gross levels of perception . . . When people bother you in any way, it is because their souls are trying to get your divine attention and your blessing.

  Catherine Ponder

  Blessing, Reality, Oneness

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• 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.

  Harold Kerzner

  Art, Creating, Dumb

  Harold Kerzner (2009). “Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling”, p.4, John Wiley & Sons

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