Illusion Quotes - Page 36

• Although I didn't write myself off as a complete failure, all illusion and romance was gone. I was no longer able to inflate myself; I had disappointed my own expectations and was genuinely worried about dying in the streets.

  Arthur Nersesian

  Writing, Expectations, Romance

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• The boundary between ourselves and other people and between ourselves and Nature, is illusion. Oneness is reality.

  Charlene Spretnak

  Reality, Oneness, People

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• In liberation, you stand alone. You stand alone because you need no supports of any kind. You need no supports because you have realized that the very notion of a separate you no longer exists, that there is nothing to support, that the whole ego experience was a flimsy illusion. So you stand alone but are never, never lonely because everywhere you look, all you see is That, and you are That.

  Adyashanti

  Lonely, Support, Ego

  "Stand Alone" by Adyashanti, www.adyashanti.org. 1997.

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• Ugliness is an illusion, gentlemen. Like beauty. Like color. All depends on the light. The only reality is action.

  Karen Traviss

  Reality, Light, Color

  Karen Traviss (2011). “True Colors: Star Wars Legends (Republic Commando)”, p.38, Del Rey

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• What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil, envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil.

  Gautama Buddha

  Lying, Roots, Evil

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• The illusion that you could hold to yourself the things you most want and lose the things you least wanted to keep..ıs the struggle of lıfe.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Life, Struggle, Want

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• You know the illusion of the cheap money is over and now Britain has to go out there and graft and earn its way and create wealth and prosperity in a very competitive world.

  George Osborne

  World, Way, Wealth

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• Love - not dim and blind but so far-seeing that it can glimpse around corners, around bends and twists and illusion; instead of overlooking faults love sees through them to the secret inside.

  Vera Nazarian

  True Love, Secret, Twists

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• Fear is the illusion that I have some control over the bad things that might happen to me.

  Michael Treanor

  Inspirational, Life, Might

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• It is no use dealing with illusions and make-believes. We must look at the facts. The world ... is too dangerous for anyone to be able to afford to nurse illusions. We must look at realities.

  Winston Churchill

  Believe, Reality, Nurse

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

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• The things that matter in this country have been reduced in choice, there are two political parties, there are a handful insurance companies, there are six or seven information centers.. but if you want a bagel there are 23 flavors. Because you have the illusion of choice!

  George Carlin

  Country, Philosophy, Party

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• There is no more cruel illusion than that war makes a people richer.

  Herbert Hoover

  War, People, Presidential

  Herbert Hoover (1946). “Addresses Upon the Road: World War II, 1941-1945”

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• It is only that my illusion is more real to me than reality. And so do we often build our world on an error, and cry out that the universe is falling to pieces, if any one but lift a finger to replace the error by truth.

  Mary Antin

  Real, Fall, Errors

  Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• What if somebody came along who could teach me how my world works and how to control it What if I could meet a super-advanced ... what if a Siddhartha or a Jesus came into our time, with power over the illusions of the world because he knew the reality behind them And what if I could meet him in person, if he were flying a biplane, for instance, and landed in the same meadow with me.

  Richard Bach

  Time, Jesus, Reality

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.4, Delta

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• Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.

  Herman Wouk

  Reality, Wish, Gaps

  Herman Wouk (1988). “War and Remembrance”, Pocket

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• The problem is one of opposition between subjective and objective points of view. There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality. But often what appears to a more subjective point of view cannot be accounted for in this way. So either the objective conception of the world is incomplete, or the subjective involves illusions that should be rejected.

  Thomas Nagel

  Reality, Views, Admitting

  Thomas Nagel (1991). “Mortal Questions : Canto”, p.196, Cambridge University Press

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• 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.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Reality, Essence, Atheism

  Ludwig Feuerbach (2012). “The Essence of Christianity”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.

  Judith Guest

  Reality, People, Twenties

  Judith Guest (1982). “Ordinary People”, p.92, Penguin

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• There is the illusion of the world and the reality of the Torah.

  Meir Kahane

  Reality, World, Torah

  Meir Kahane (1973). “Meir Kahane--writings (5732-33): Selected Writings by Meir Kahane from the Year 5732-33 (1971-73).”

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• The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Reality, Causes

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• Globalization is a reality. And this makes most leaders today realize that populist illusions can't be sustained before they collapse into stagnation and leave their political supporters deeply disillusioned. You can't inflate away your troubles or allow mountains of debt to build up if, as a country, you have to make your living in a globally competitive environment... Building prosperity requires caution and patience. It requires time. Populism is a short cut that doesn't work.

  Fernando Henrique Cardoso

  Country, Cutting, Reality

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• When you have examined all the illusions of life and know that there isn't any reality, but you nevertheless go on, then you are a mature human being. You accept the idea that it is all mask and illusion and that people are in disguise. You see the crumbl

  Marguerite Young

  Reality, Ideas, People

  Marguerite Young (1999). “Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs”, Knopf

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• 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.

  Jose Saramago

  Reality, Government, Hymns

  "Still a street-fighting man". Interview with Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2006.

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• When I was in high school, we were all laboring under the illusion, or maybe it was a reality, that everyone in our school was a virgin.

  James Woods

  School, Reality, Virgins

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• When a country is in harmony with the Tao, the factories make trucks and tractors. When a country goes counter to the Tao, warheads are stockpiled outside the cities. There is no greater illusion than fear, no greater wrong than preparing to defend yourself, no greater misfortune than having an enemy. Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe.

  Laozi

  Country, Fear, Cities

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