Illusion Quotes - Page 28

• The trouble with illusions is that you aren't aware you have any until they are taken away from you.

  Mary Doria Russell

  Love, Dream, Taken

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• Mind is the illusion that which is not but appears, and appears so much that you think that you are the mind.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Thinking, Mind

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• Allah made the illusion look real and the real an illusion. He concealed the sea and made the foam visible, the wind invisible, and the dust manifest. you see the dust whirling, but how can the dust rise by itself? you see the foam, but not the ocean. invoke Him with deeds, not words; for deeds are real and will save you in the infinite-life.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Real, Islamic

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• Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

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• ...The unconscious has no time. There is no trouble about time in the unconscious. Part of our psyche is not in time and not in space. They are only an illusion, time and space, and so in a certain part of our psyche time does not exist at all.

  Carl Jung

  Space, Doe, Consciousness

  Carl Gustav Jung (1976). “The Collected works”

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• God's revelation... unmasks our illusions about ourselves. It exposes our pride, our individualism, our self-centeredness - in short, our sin. But worship also offers forgiveness, healing, transformation, motivation, and courage to work in the world for God's justice and peace - in short, salvation in its largest sense.

  Marva Dawn

  Motivation, Healing, Pride

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• You may be living under the illusion that when God ignites great things in your life, He'll announce it with a big bang. He might. It's more likely that He won't. So stop waiting around for the big bang. Pay attention to the subtle clues and the still, small voice. God lives in that place too.

  Steven Furtick

  Monday, Waiting Around, Voice

  Steven Furtick (2010). “Sun Stand Still: What Happens When You Dare to Ask God for the Impossible”, p.45, Multnomah

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• But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy...One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy any more.

  Ottmar Edenhofer

  Environmental, Energy, Climate

  "IPCC Official: 'Climate Policy Is Redistributing The World's Wealth'". Interview with Bernard Potter, www.thegwpf.com. November 14, 2010.

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• The misconception that there is serious disagreement among scientists about global warming is actually an illusion that has been deliberately fostered by a relatively small but extremely well-funded cadre of special interests, including Exxon Mobil and a few other oil, coal, and utilities companies. These companies want to prevent any new policies that would interfere with their current business plans that rely on the massive unrestrained dumping of global warming pollution into the Earth's atmosphere every hour of every day.

  Al Gore

  Science, Oil, Atmosphere

  Al Gore (2006). “An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It”, p.263, Rodale

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• Reality, for all intents and purposes, is just life - the real world, pure and uncut, shot straight to the vein of our souls every day we draw breath. Whether it's good or bad, it's still reality; the opposite of illusion, the foe of fantasy, and the anchor that keeps us stuck on this plane. And thank Buddha it does, because some people need it in huge doses.

  Corey Taylor

  Real, Memorable, Anchors

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• Dialogue must appear realistic without being so. Actual realism-the lifting, as it were, of passages from a stenographer's take-down of a 'real life' conversation-would be disruptive. Of what? Of the illusion of the novel. In 'real life' everything is diluted; in the novel everything is condensed.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Real, Writing, Would Be

  Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”

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• It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Eye, Heart

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• People are under the illusion that it's easy...Technically, it is complex. You have a million options with equipment to distract you. I tell my students to simplify their equipment.

  Brett Weston

  Photography, People, Students

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• A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, Art, Creativity

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• The true wisdom of the philosopher ought to insist in enjoying everything. Yet we apply ourselves to dissecting and destroying everything that is good in itself, that has virtue, albeit the virtue there is in mere illusions. Nature gives us this life like a toy to a weak child. We want to see how it all works; we break everything. There remains in our hands, and before our eyes, stupid and opened too late, the sterile wreckage, fragments that will not again make a whole. The good is so simple.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Nature, Children, Stupid

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• It is tempting to pretend that minorities on death row share a fate in no way connected to our own, that our treatment of them sounds no echoes beyond the chambers in which they die. Such an illusion is ultimately corrosive, for the reverberations of injustice are not so easily confined.

  William J. Brennan

  Fate, Echoes, Way

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• It is the habit of the unthinking to turn to the illusions of economic magic. These unhappy times call for the building of plans that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Pyramids, Magic

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• Darwin's greatest achievement was to show that the appearance of purpose, planning, teleology (design), and intentionality in the origin and development of human and animal species was entirely an illusion. The illusion could be explained by evolutionary processes that contained no such purpose at all. But the spread of ideas through imitation required the whole apparatus of human consciousness and intentionality

  John Searle

  Animal, Ideas, Achievement

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• He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen.

  John Maynard Keynes

  France, Economics, Mankind

  The Economic Consequences of the Peace ch. 3 (1919)

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• If a fox is unable to befriend a tiger, then the fox should create an illusion of close association with the tiger by carefully trailing behind the cat while boasting of the deep friendship they share. In this way, he creates an impression that his well being is of great concern to the tiger.

  Chin-Ning Chu

  Friendship, Cat, Power

  Chin-Ning Chu (2010). “Thick Face, Black Heart: The Warrior Philosophy for Conquering the Challenges of Business and Life”, p.173, Hachette UK

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• We are talking about an awesome power. It is the power to weave illusions that appear real as long as they last. That is the very core of the Fed's power. Of course not everyone is instinctively against this illusion-weaving power, and many even welcome it. Tragically, the innocent who understand little about the complexity of the monetary system suffer the most, while those who are in the know reap great profit whether the market is going up or down.

  Ron Paul

  Money, Real, Power

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• Success on a cosmic level completely eludes me. I'm deeply suspicious of things being too good. It's part of my superstition, I think, to generate pain in order to give the illusion of gain. I'm not saying I reject success, but honestly, I don't quite know how to deal with it. It's an old feeling: As soon as you have the thing you've been going after all your life, that reasonable degree of security, you start kicking against it, doubting it.

  Hugh Laurie

  Success, Pain, Thinking

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• It helps to resign as the controller of your fate. All that energy we expend to keep things running right is not what's keeping things running right. We're bugs struggling in the river, brightly visible to the trout below. With that fact in mind, people like me make up all these rules to give us the illusion that we are in charge. I need to say to myself, they're not needed, hon. Just take in the buggy pleasures. Be kind to the others, grab the fleck of riverweed, notice how beautifully your bug legs scull.

  Anne Lamott

  Inspirational, Running, Struggle

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• Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish.

  Minna Antrim

  Inspirational, Eye, Dust

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• The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by excluding moral truths and personal responsibility.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Responsibility

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