Illusion Quotes - Page 38

• Imperialism creates the illusion of wealth as far as the masses are concerned. It usually serves to hide the fact that the ruling classes are gobbling up the natural resources of the home territory in an improvident manner and are otherwise utilizing the national wealth largely for their own purposes. Eventually the general public is called upon to pay for all of this, frequently after the military machine can no longer maintain external aggression.

  Jack D. Forbes

  Military, Home, Class

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• Illusion is the mantle of the Real

  Frederick Franck

  Real

  "Echoes from the Bottomless Well". Book by Frederick Franck, 1985.

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• Control is an illusion. You will never be able to control anything, any situation, or anyone without consent. So in actuality there is no control, there is only consent!

  Jennifer O'Neill

  Able, Situation, Consent

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• Now you see. We are all fugitives. We have always been fugitives from the void. Whatever comfort, whatever power we gain from outside of ourselves diminishes us -- because comfort and power, unless they are won from the void inside of us, are illusions that make us forget the emptyness that carries us. When we forget that, we believe we deserve comfort and power and so are capable of any evil. We deserve nothing but what we make of ourselves. We deserve nothing else. And when we understand that, then nothing is enough.

  A.A. Attanasio

  Believe, Evil, Gains

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• Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.

  Al Goldstein

  Next, Moments, Oblivion

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• From experience, I came to learn that ayahuasca bestows upon the user knowledge about a variety of topics, not only consciousness and perception, but also leads one to realize that what we perceive is an illusion.

  Pablo Amaringo

  Ayahuasca, Perception, Topics

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• This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality.
  Embrace this moment, remember: we are eternal
  all this pain is an illusion.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Pain, Body, Remember

  "Song: 'Parabola'". 2002.

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• Now suppose that the clue experiences that can correct the illusion become for some reason increasingly scarce – perhaps because the dominant story itself brings about their elimination! Then the illusion might go on for a very long time, might have to result in real catastrophe, before anyone realizes anything is wrong.

  Val Plumwood

  Real, Long, Stories

  Val Plumwood (2012). “The Eye of the Crocodile”, p.13, ANU E Press

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• Over the years, Americans in particular have been all too willing to squander their hard-earned independence and freedom for the illusion of feeling safe under someone else's authority. The concept of self-sufficiency has been undermined in value over a scant few generations. The vast majority of the population seems to look down their noses upon self-reliance as some quaint dusty relic, entertained only by the hyperparanoid or those hopelessly incapable of fitting into mainstream society.

  Cody Lundin

  Mainstream Society, Self, Years

  Cody Lundin (2007). “When All Hell Breaks Loose: Stuff You Need to Survive When Disaster Strikes”, p.57, Gibbs Smith

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• The mind spends most of the time lost in fantasies and illusions, reliving pleasant or unpleasant experiences and anticipating the future with eagerness or fear. While lost in such cravings or aversions, we are unaware of what is happening now, what we are doing now.

  S. N. Goenka

  Mind, Aversion, Vipassana

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• Had it been published by a voice from heaven, that twelve poor men, taken out of boats and creeks, without any help of learning, should conquer the world to the cross, it might have been thought an illusion against all reason of men; yet we know it was undertaken and accomplished by them.

  Stephen Charnock

  Taken, Men, Voice

  Stephen Charnock (2013). “The Existence and Attributes of God”, p.678, Ravenio Books

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• It is necessary to expose the false propaganda of the imperialists and thoroughly dispel the illusion that the imperialists will give up their positions in the colonies and dependent countries with good will.

  Kim Il-sung

  Country, Giving Up, Propaganda

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

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• The idea that the world can unite without being regulated is clearly an illusion.

  Guy Verhofstadt

  Ideas, World

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• All things look good from far away and it is man's eternally persistent childlike faith in the reality of that illusion that has made him the triumphant restless being he is.

  Rockwell Kent

  Reality, Men, Looks

  Rockwell Kent (2000). “Voyaging: Southward from the Strait of Magellan”, p.40, Wesleyan University Press

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• Without art we live under the illusion that there is only time, and not eternity.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Art, Eternity, Only Time

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• Nowledge which... transcends the bounds, the prejudices and prejudgements of any one society and culture is not an illusion but, on the contrary, a glorious and luminous reality. Just how it was achieved remains subject to debate.

  Ernest Gellner

  Reality, Prejudice, Culture

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• Are you looking for something real in this world of illusions? Call me. Casual Flings need not apply. I am looking for Love.

  Aprilynne Pike

  Real, World, Looking For Love

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• Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Dream, World, Hours

  Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.120, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Illusions are certainly expensive amusements; but the destruction of illusions is still more expensive, if looked upon as an amusement, as it undoubtedly is by some people.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, People, Suffering

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.462, Courier Corporation

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• Our business is to wake up. We have to find ways in which to detect the whole of reality in the one illusory part which our self-centered consciousness permits us to see. We must not live thoughtlessly, taking our illusion for the complete reality, but at the same time we must not live too thoughtfully in the sense of trying to escape from the dream state. We must be continuously on watch for ways in which we may enlarge our consciousness.

  Aldous Huxley

  Dream, Reality, Self

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• Most people like to live in illusions.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, People, Awakening

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• (...)normalcy is an illusion. Each person is utterly unique. A standard of normalcy is something that most people of the world simply will never access.

  Colleen Houck

  Life, Unique, People

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• One cannot overstate the childishness of the ideas that feed and stir the masses. Real ideas must as a rule be simplified to the level of a child's understanding if they are to arouse the masses to historic actions. A childish illusion, fixed in the minds of all children born in a certain decade and hammered home for four years, can easily reappear as a deadly serious political ideology twenty years later.

  Sebastian Haffner

  Children, Real, Home

  Sebastian Haffner (2012). “Defying Hitler: A Memoir”, p.14, Hachette UK

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• I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to them.

  Conrad Veidt

  Art, Debt, Forget

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• Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who give this power to them.

  Anthony de Mello

  Spiritual, Hurt, People

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.113, Image

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