Illusion Quotes

• Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Horse, Entrepreneur

  Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray - and more”, Eighty Pence Books

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• Disappointment results from the removal of illusion.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Disappointment, Results, Removal

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• Pain destroys the illusions of false, that is, elitist pleasures. It burns from the inside out. It, therefore, sensitizes us to what is truly beautiful in life.

  Matthew Fox

  Beautiful, Pain, Pleasure

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Truth, People

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  The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Inspiring, Education, Wisdom

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

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  People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

  Albert Einstein

  Witty, Attitude, Freedom

  "Disturbing the Universe" by Freeman Dyson, Ch. 17, (p. 193), 1979.

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• The world is not the illusion. It's you who are the illusion.

  Chuck Hillig

  Self, World

  Chuck Hillig (2007). “Seeds for the Soul: Living as the Source of who You are”, p.235, Sentient Publications

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• Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.

  Marina Abramovic

  Past, Thinking, Here And Now

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• Illusion and wisdom combined are the charm of life and art.

  Joseph Joubert

  Art, Charm

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• God made the Illusion look Real and the Real an Illusion !

  Rumi

  Real, Looks, Made

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  All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  "A DreamWithin a Dream" l. 10 (1849)

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• Time is an illusion.

  Albert Einstein

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• Do not waste time trying to overcome your weaknesses and failures. Simply raise your consciousness, transcend and free your thoughts from limitation and illusion, and find within the very center of your being a wholeness and completeness! Cease wallowing in your imperfections and never accept limitations! Aim high, and you will get there. It is only your thoughts that hold you back.

  Eileen Caddy

  Imperfection, Trying, Weakness

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• Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Real, Believe, Yesterday

  Luigi Pirandello, John Linstrum, Joseph Farrell (2004). “Six characters in search of an author”, A&C Black

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• Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.

  Charles Addams

  Spiders, Normalcy, Chaos

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• The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Relationship, Sarcastic, Funny Inspirational

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• Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

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• I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.

  Kabir

  Mirrors, Cities, Blind

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• We create the illusions we need to go on.

  Libba Bray

  Needs, Goes On

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.523, Simon and Schuster

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• It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.

  Ellis Peters

  Men, Wounds

  Ellis Peters (2015). “The House Of Green Turf”, p.67, Head of Zeus

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• The only love from which a man never recuperates is the one he never had. The eternal and untarnished illusion.

  Rae Foley

  Men, Eternal, Only Love

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• Everything is an illusion.

  Mata Hari

  Last Words

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• Is not this world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

  Angela Carter

  World, Fool, This World

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• Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Forgotten

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• Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and give the reassurance albeit false, that the whole mixture is real and true. The thinking processes attempt to organize this whole cesspool of illusions according to the laws of plausibility. This level of consciousness is supposed to reflect reality; it is the map we use for organizing our life.

  Erich Fromm

  Motivation, Real, Passion

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