Illusion Quotes - Page 10

• I never enquire into the origin of things, all Origin is a fallacy (in this I follow Nietzsche: origin is a very contested Cartesian illusion of reliability). Everything reaches us filtered through culture.

  Agustin Fernandez Mallo

  Culture, Fallacy

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I think it's an injustice that most consumers going to the supermarket have so few options for fruit and vegetables to feed their families. There might be the appearance of abundance, but it's an illusion.

  Bryant Terry

  Thinking, Injustice, Abundance

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• I was naïve when I was young, I was sheltered. I had illusions about who I was going to be, delusions, and a little bit of pretentiousness. And I thought, "I'll write the guy like that. It'll allow me to make fun of everyone else if I make fun of myself."

  Greg Mottola

  Fun, Writing, Guy

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• You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.

  Peter Abrahams

  Men, Alone Man, People

  Peter Abrahams (1965). “A night of their own”

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• Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.

  Scott Adams

  People, Path, Free Will

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• A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.

  Sai Baba

  Men, House, Foundation

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• He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Humanity, Desire, Liberty

  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin, Arthur Lehning (1973). “Selected writings [of] Michael Bakunin”, Jonathan Cape

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• What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Love, Life, Dream

  "Life is a Dream". Play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, 1635.

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• A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

  Georges Bernanos

  Men, Needs, Poverty

  Georges Bernanos, Rémy Rougeau (2002). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, p.62, Da Capo Press

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• I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake.

  Lewis Black

  Coffee, Giving, Might

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• Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea.

  David Blaine

  Art, Hands, Ideas

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

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• Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.

  Giotto di Bondone

  Travel, Echoes, Rome

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• We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Reality, Suffering, Weakness

  Daniel J. Boorstin (1978). “The Image”

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• A lot of people do that kind of nostalgia stuff believing that they were very happy in their teenage years, but that's probably just an illusion.

  Jo Brand

  Teenage, Believe, Years

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• Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.

  Andre Breton

  Fate, Finding Yourself, Trying

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• Making films is sort of like you're pulling off a magic trick. It's sort of like an illusion. It's not real but you want it to appear real, and all kinds of things go into that, from the clothes you're wearing to the make-up, to the light.

  Jeff Bridges

  Real, Light, Clothes

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• People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening.

  David Brinkley

  Perspective, People, Facts

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• Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing.

  James Broughton

  Song, Laughing, Silence

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• It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'

  Gabriel Byrne

  Giving, Born, Said

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• I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Life, Inspire, Three

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• I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

  Paul Cezanne

  Birthday, Artist, Age

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• Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Greatness, Illusions Of Grandeur, Vision

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• There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Girl, Needs, Waste

  "Earthly Paradise: Colette's Autobiography Drawn from the Writings of Her Life". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1966.

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• Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

  Joseph Conrad

  Lonely, Memories, Loneliness

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Under Western Eyes”, p.39, Joseph Conrad

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• Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.

  Joseph Conrad

  Enemy, Literature, Action

  Nostromo (1904) pt. 1, ch. 6

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