Illusion Quotes - Page 11

• The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Life, Travel, Mean

  Charles Horton Cooley, Hans-Joachim Schubert (1998). “On Self and Social Organization”, p.95, University of Chicago Press

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• Being a former theater student, of course, there is a part of me that is fascinated with stage crafts and what you can do with illusions and working within the confines of the studio.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Crafts, Students, Theater

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• I don't have any illusions anymore. The illusion that rock 'n' roll could change anything - I don't believe that. I've changed.

  Roger Daltrey

  Believe, Rocks, Rock N Roll

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

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• No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.

  Marguerite Duras

  Real, Book, Men

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.17, Grove Press

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• I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there's some kind of change.

  Bob Dylan

  Future, Past, Thinking

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

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• 'Grand Illusion' and 'Rules of the Game' are routinely included on lists of the greatest films, and deserve to be.

  Roger Ebert

  Games, Lists, Film

  Roger Ebert (2016). “The Great Movies IV”, p.78, University of Chicago Press

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• When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Theatre, Roles, Way

  "Jesse Eisenberg: Privacy settings engaged". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2010.

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• I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us.

  Eve Ensler

  Lying, Thinking, Denial

  "Interview with Eve Ensler: In The Body of the World". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 29, 2013.

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• Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Nature, Believe, Ignorance

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• Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality.

  Jacque Fresco

  Real, Thinking, Should Have

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• I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there's just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.

  Stephen Fry

  Stars, Quality, Ordinary

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 22, 2004.

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• Mindfulness is a quality that's always there. It's an illusion that there's a meditation and post-meditation period, which I always find amusing, because you're either mindful or you're not.

  Richard Gere

  Meditation, Quality, Mindfulness

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• The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Challenges, Becoming, Modernity

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• The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see.

  Philip Guston

  Moving, Magic, Mind

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

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• Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance. In fact, many religions take away the problem entirely, because their adherents ostensibly believe that they're going to be reunited with everyone they love, and death is an illusion.

  Sam Harris

  Believe, Parent, Stories

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• If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

  Hermann Hesse

  Time, Real, Evil

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.107, Om Books International

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• The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state of affairs: enantiodromia, or the Greek notion of things turning into their opposite.

  James Hillman

  Kids, Opposites, Ideas

  "America and the Shift in Ages: An Interview with Jungian James Hillman". Interview With Pythia Peay, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 26, 2011.

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• The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Men, Destiny, Decision

  "The Path of the Law" (1897)

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• The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can't even comprehend it. It's such an illusion, it's such a strange thing.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Supernatural Forces, Strange, Every Second

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• The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

  Victor Hugo

  Wings, Bird, Soul

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• In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their present, under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their departure.

  King Hussein I

  Struggle, Here I Am, Departure

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• When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you? The two are so, so different. One is an infinite consciousness capable of being and creating whatever it chooses, the other is an illusion imprisoned by its own perceived and programmed limitations.

  David Icke

  Real, Believe, Two

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• Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Fate, Decision, Agents

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal, University of the Punjab. Dept. of Iqbal Studies, University of the Punjab (1982). “Iqbal centenary papers”

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• Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.

  Barbara Jordan

  Destiny, America, Community

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• Limits, like fear, is often an illusion.

  Michael Jordan

  Motivational, Fear, Limits

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