Illusion Quotes - Page 33

• We will be asked, "what did you love most in this world? What did you spend life doing? What did you run after? Will it last? The things that you chased, will they last? Will they help you, or will they hurt you when the illusion of this life has passed?"

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Running, Hurt, Islamic

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• The being we call god is merely a pawn working for a powerful and rational force in some far-off galaxy. This force is trying to weed out people who are irrational by seeing who would be stupid enough to believe in his god illusion so easily. Those that believe in this illusion, he will send to eternal damnation and he will deliver the rational beings, those who stoically refused to believe in a god, to heaven.

  Nick Yee

  God, Weed, Atheist

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• A vision without a strategy remains an illusion.

  Lee Bolman

  Monday, Morning, Vision

  "Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership". Book by Lee Bolman and Terrence E. Deal, 1991.

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• When someone tells you, 'I love you,' and then you feel, 'Oh, I must be worthy after all,' that's an illusion. That's not true. Or someone says, 'I hate you,' and you think, 'Oh, God, I knew it; I'm not very worthy,' that's not true either. Neither one of these thoughts hold any intrinsic reality. They are an overlay. When someone says, 'I love you,' he is telling you about himself, not you. When someone says, 'I hate you,' she is telling you about herself, not you. World views are self views-literally.

  Adyashanti

  Uplifting, Hate, Love You

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• It's still popular to ... insist that globalization is a rising tide that lifts all boats, but the hard reality is that the last thirty years have seen America's once proud and prosperous working class thrown to the wolves, so corporations could keep boosting their quarterly profits and the middle class could maintain a filmy illusion of wealth through access to cheap consumer goods.

  John Michael Greer

  Reality, Years, Class

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• Science is simply a logical process of discovering truths about the world we live in; the illusion is that science is some sort of a set of strange rules, a religion that speaks algebra or a magical group of incantations and spells.

  Robert Todd Carroll

  God, Religion, Groups

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• Although I didn't write myself off as a complete failure, all illusion and romance was gone. I was no longer able to inflate myself; I had disappointed my own expectations and was genuinely worried about dying in the streets.

  Arthur Nersesian

  Writing, Expectations, Romance

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• The boundary between ourselves and other people and between ourselves and Nature, is illusion. Oneness is reality.

  Charlene Spretnak

  Reality, Oneness, People

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• In liberation, you stand alone. You stand alone because you need no supports of any kind. You need no supports because you have realized that the very notion of a separate you no longer exists, that there is nothing to support, that the whole ego experience was a flimsy illusion. So you stand alone but are never, never lonely because everywhere you look, all you see is That, and you are That.

  Adyashanti

  Lonely, Support, Ego

  "Stand Alone" by Adyashanti, www.adyashanti.org. 1997.

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• Ugliness is an illusion, gentlemen. Like beauty. Like color. All depends on the light. The only reality is action.

  Karen Traviss

  Reality, Light, Color

  Karen Traviss (2011). “True Colors: Star Wars Legends (Republic Commando)”, p.38, Del Rey

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• What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil, envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil.

  Gautama Buddha

  Lying, Roots, Evil

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• The illusion that you could hold to yourself the things you most want and lose the things you least wanted to keep..ıs the struggle of lıfe.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Life, Struggle, Want

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• You know the illusion of the cheap money is over and now Britain has to go out there and graft and earn its way and create wealth and prosperity in a very competitive world.

  George Osborne

  World, Way, Wealth

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• Love - not dim and blind but so far-seeing that it can glimpse around corners, around bends and twists and illusion; instead of overlooking faults love sees through them to the secret inside.

  Vera Nazarian

  True Love, Secret, Twists

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• Fear is the illusion that I have some control over the bad things that might happen to me.

  Michael Treanor

  Inspirational, Life, Might

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• It is no use dealing with illusions and make-believes. We must look at the facts. The world ... is too dangerous for anyone to be able to afford to nurse illusions. We must look at realities.

  Winston Churchill

  Believe, Reality, Nurse

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

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• There is no more cruel illusion than that war makes a people richer.

  Herbert Hoover

  War, People, Presidential

  Herbert Hoover (1946). “Addresses Upon the Road: World War II, 1941-1945”

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• It is only that my illusion is more real to me than reality. And so do we often build our world on an error, and cry out that the universe is falling to pieces, if any one but lift a finger to replace the error by truth.

  Mary Antin

  Real, Fall, Errors

  Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• What if somebody came along who could teach me how my world works and how to control it What if I could meet a super-advanced ... what if a Siddhartha or a Jesus came into our time, with power over the illusions of the world because he knew the reality behind them And what if I could meet him in person, if he were flying a biplane, for instance, and landed in the same meadow with me.

  Richard Bach

  Time, Jesus, Reality

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.4, Delta

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• Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.

  Herman Wouk

  Reality, Wish, Gaps

  Herman Wouk (1988). “War and Remembrance”, Pocket

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• The problem is one of opposition between subjective and objective points of view. There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality. But often what appears to a more subjective point of view cannot be accounted for in this way. So either the objective conception of the world is incomplete, or the subjective involves illusions that should be rejected.

  Thomas Nagel

  Reality, Views, Admitting

  Thomas Nagel (1991). “Mortal Questions : Canto”, p.196, Cambridge University Press

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• The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence ... for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Reality, Essence, Atheism

  Ludwig Feuerbach (2012). “The Essence of Christianity”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.

  Judith Guest

  Reality, People, Twenties

  Judith Guest (1982). “Ordinary People”, p.92, Penguin

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• There is the illusion of the world and the reality of the Torah.

  Meir Kahane

  Reality, World, Torah

  Meir Kahane (1973). “Meir Kahane--writings (5732-33): Selected Writings by Meir Kahane from the Year 5732-33 (1971-73).”

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• The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Reality, Causes

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