Illusion Quotes - Page 35

• If you want to realize yourselves all your pet illusions must be unmasked.

  Mina Loy

  Pet, Want, Realizing

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• Cheap medical care is one of the most expensive things there is. So long as politicians can create the illusion of something for nothing, that gets them votes, which is what it is all about, as far as they are concerned.

  Thomas Sowell

  Long, Political, Care

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• In vain do we seek tranquility in the desert; temptations are always with us; our passions, represented by the demons, never let us alone: those monsters created by the heart, those illusions produced by the mind, those vain specters that are our errors and our lies always appear before us to seduce us; they attack us even in our fasting or our mortifications, in other words, in our very strength.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Lying, Passion, Heart

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• Its really easy to get colors right. Its really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a color but its also an illusion.

  Donna Karan

  Color, Black, Easy

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• There is something within me that might be illusion as it is often case with young delighted people, but if I would be fortunate to achieve some of my ideals, it would be on the behalf of the whole of humanity. If those hopes would become fulfilled, the most exciting thought would be that it is a deed of a Serb.

  Nikola Tesla

  People, Humanity, Would Be

  Address at the Belgrade train station, June 1, 1892.

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• Where the Old Masters created an illusion of space into which one could imagine walking, the illusion created by a Modernist is one into which one can look, can travel through, only with the eye.

  Clement Greenberg

  Art, Travel, Eye

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• It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection.

  Edward Sapir

  Communication, Mean, Reflection

  Edward Sapir, David Goodman Mandelbaum (1985). “Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality”, p.162, Univ of California Press

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• We move from the illusion of certainty, to the certainty of illusion

  John Bradshaw

  Inspirational, Moving, Certainty

  John Bradshaw (2013). “Homecoming: Reclaiming and Healing Your Inner Child”, p.59, Bantam

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• Friend, many and many a dream is mere confusion a cobweb of no consequence at all. Two gates for ghostly dreams there are: One gateway of honest horn, and one of ivory. Issuing by the ivory gate are dreams of glimmering illusion, fantasies, but those that come through solid polished horn may be borne out, if mortals only know them.

  Homer

  Dream, Two, Ivory

  Homer, Robert Fitzgerald (1963). “The Odyssey”, Anchor

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• What is real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Real, Creative, Painting

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• Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Arriving, Future Time, Desirable

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• We may find it convenient to live with the illusion that circumstances or other people are responsible for the quality of our lives, but the reality is that we are responsible-response-able-for our choices.

  Stephen Covey

  Reality, People, Choices

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1997). “First Things First Every Day: Daily Reflections- Because Where You're Headed Is More Important Than How Fast You Get There”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts on saving the lives of those who are in such despair as to want to end them. It is a societal illusion that suicide is rare. It is not.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Suicide, America, Bipolar

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• Barack Obama has done more than anyone else to promote the dangerous illusion that we can choose whether to have a war or not. But our enemies have already made that choice. Retired Marine Corps General James Mattis said: “No war is over until the enemy says it's over. We may think it's over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy gets a vote“.

  Thomas Sowell

  War, Marine, Thinking

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• Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new and unique powers of expression.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Unique, Media, Expression

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• Nothing more can be attempted than to establish the beginning and the direction of an infinitely long road. The pretension of any systematic and definitive completeness would be, at least, a self-illusion. Perfection can here be obtained by the individual student only in the subjective sense that he communicates everything he has been able to see.

  Georg Simmel

  Self, Long, Perfection

  Georg Simmel, Kurt H. Wolff (1950). “The Sociology of Georg Simmel”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• The effect on men has been very bad, too, of the omission of women's history, because men have been given the impression that they're much more important in the world than they actually are. It has fostered illusions of grandeur in every man that are unwarranted. If you can think as a man that everything great in the world and its civilization was created by men, then naturally you have to look down on women. And naturally, you have to have different aspirations for your sons and for your daughters.

  Gerda Lerner

  Daughter, Son, Men

  "Women and History Part I: The Creation of Patriarchy with Gerda Lerner". Interview with Jeffrey Mishlove, www.intuitionnetwork.org.

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• For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one or the other. It was the switching back and forth that endangered things.

  Lorrie Moore

  Love Relationship, Lasts, Sticks

  FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Apr 01, 2017

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• Knowledge can be heady stuff, but it easily leads to an excess of zeal! -- to illusions of grandeur and a desire to impress others and achieve eminence . . . Our search for knowledge should be ceaseless, which means that it is open-ended, never resting on laurels, degrees, or past achievements.

  Hugh Nibley

  Mean, Past, Illusions Of Grandeur

  Hugh Nibley (1989). “Approaching Zion”, Shadow Mountain

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• In order to find God in ourselves, we must stop looking at ourselves, stop checking and verifying ourselves in the mirror of our own futility, and be content to be in Him and to do whatever He wills, according to our limitations, judging our acts not in the light of our own illusions, but in the light of His reality which is all around us in the things and people we live with.

  Thomas Merton

  Reality, Mirrors, Light

  Thomas Merton (2002). “Seeds”

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• The great cosmic illusion is a hierophany.... One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes in its reality, and therefore forgets or despises eternity.

  Mircea Eliade

  Believe, Reality, Forget

  "Images and Symbols". Book by Mircea Eliade, p. 90-91, 1952.

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• Single vision produces worse illusions than double vision or many-headed monsters.

  Donna J. Haraway

  Double Vision, Monsters, Produce

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• The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion

  Donna J. Haraway

  Reality, Fiction, Optical Illusions

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• Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and is lending oneself to the universal illusion without becoming its dupe.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Wisdom, Common Sense, Rising

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• God has this...hobby. He creates perfection. This world is not perfect. We have to learn to separate illusions from reality.

  Bill Hicks

  Reality, Perfect, Hobbies

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