Illusion Quotes - Page 6

• Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?

  Rumi

  Wall, Struggle, Doors

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• Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years.

  Sheila Ballantyne

  Inspirational, Years, My Best Friend

  Sheila Ballantyne (1983). “Norma Jean, the termite queen”, Viking Pr

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• Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

  Arthur Erickson

  Criminal Mind, Emptiness, Disguise

  "Criminal Minds: Persuasion". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2014.

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• One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind.

  Ella Maillart

  Mind, Done

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• 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.

  Rene Daumal

  Art, Truth, Science

  "The Lie of the Truth (Volume 2)". Book by Rene Daumal, 1938.

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• What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Gains, Loses

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• I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the world around me, the better company I am for myself.

  Noel Coward

  World, Helping, Company

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Laugh with people laughing, cry with people crying, but don't fall into the river of world illusion. Stay on the banks.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Fall, Rivers, Laughing

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

  Philip Guston

  Magic, Pieces, Painting

  Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (2011). “Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations”, p.278, Univ of California Press

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• It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Time, Lost Youth, Age

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.164, Diversion Books

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• Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

  Arnold Newman

  Photography, Real, World

  Arnold Newman, Bruce Weber (1988). “Arnold Newman in Florida”, David R Godine Pub

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• People who have realized that this is a dream imagine that it is easy to wake up, and are angry with those who continue sleeping, not considering that the whole world that environs them does not permit them to wake. Life proceeds as a series of optical illusions, artificial needs and imaginary sensations.

  Alexander Herzen

  Dream, Sleep, People

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• You can only succeed. You cannot fail. Failure is impossible; it is an illusion. Nothing is a failure. Nothing. Everything moves the human story, and hence the process of evolution, forward. Everything advances you on your journey.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Moving, Journey, Stories

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Feb 01, 2014

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• How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.

  Judy Garland

  Children, Strange, Lost

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

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• Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

  George Eliot

  Faith, Errors, Feelings

  George Eliot (2004). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.640, Broadview Press

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• Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Lost Friendship, Experience, Lost

  "Meditations of a Parish Priest". Book by Joseph Roux, pt. 4, no. 28, 1886.

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• I have few illusions: the cause is lost in advance. As for me, I do my part, which is to drag a fairly drab existence to its conclusion.

  Rene Magritte

  Causes, Lost, Drag

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• How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.

  Hanif Kureishi

  Important, Belief, Disturbing

  Hanif Kureishi (2010). “Intimacy”, p.83, Faber & Faber

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• We pray because our life comes from God and we yield it back in prayer. Prayer is a great antidote to the illusion that we are self-made.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Prayer, Yield, Self

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• 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.

  Socrates

  Emotional, Sound, Ethics

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• There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in fact exist creators, seers, sages, saints, shakers, and movers...even if they are uncommon and do not come by the dozen. And yet these very same people can at times be boring, irritating, petulant, selfish, angry, or depressed. To avoid disillusionment with human nature, we must first give up our illusions about it.

  Abraham Maslow

  Giving Up, Selfish, Perfect

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• For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

  Emile M. Cioran

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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• An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground.

  Christoph Martin Wieland

  Drag, Make Me Happy

  "Close Relationships". Book by Christoph Martin Wieland, transl. by Harry T. Reis and Caryl E. Rusbult, p. 321, 2004.

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• In the long run, it is far more dangerous to adhere to illusion than to face what the actual fact is.

  David Bohm

  Running, Long, Faces

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

  Russell Brand

  Spiritual, Long, Tyranny

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