Illusion Quotes - Page 8

• The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

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• Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.

  Margaret Cho

  Beauty, Beautiful, Badass

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• We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away.

  George Harrison

  Wall, Space, Talking

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• Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• No matter what is happening in the world of appearances,
  beyond the veil of illusion there is love and only Love.

  Marianne Williamson

  Veils, World, Matter

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Nov 08, 2011

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• Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it all lacks totality, completeness, unity. When the Illustrious Buddha taught about the world, he had to divide it into Samsara and Nirvana, illusion and truth, into suffering and salvation. One cannot do otherwise, there is no other method for those who teach. But the world itself, being in and around us, is never one-sided. Never is a man or a deed wholly Samsara or wholly Nirvana; never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner. This only seems so because we suffer the illusion that time is something real.

  Hermann Hesse

  Spiritual, Real, Men

  "Siddhartha". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1922.

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• Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor.

  Jack Nicholson

  Heart, Thinking, People

  "Happy birthday Jack Nicholson: A picture tribute to Hollywood's greatest vintage rogue as he celebrates turning 75" by Rob Leigh, www.mirror.co.uk. April 22, 2012.

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• Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . .

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Happiness, Dream

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.473, Library of America

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• Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion.

  Juliette Binoche

  Believe, Giving, Important

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• Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

  Johnny Depp

  Daughter, Done, May

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• Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

  Henri Nouwen

  Life, Peace, Freedom

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• I don't care if you're gay, black, Chinese, straight. That means nothing to me. It's all an illusion.

  Joe Rogan

  Mean, Gay, Black

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• Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.

  Francoise Sagan

  Art, Believe, Opposites

  "Françoise Sagan, The Art of Fiction No. 15". Interview with Blair Fuller and Robert B. Silvers, www.theparisreview.org. Autumn 1956.

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• It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Behind The Scenes, Fame, Dangerous

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.

  Yul Brynner

  Love, Life, Death

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• There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Optical Illusions, Transcendentalism, Persons

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.229, Harvard University Press

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• When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses.

  Walter Russell

  Knowing, Unity, Conflict

  Walter Russell (1947). “The Secret of Light”, p.79, Рипол Классик

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• Family is the most important thing in the world.

  Princess Diana

  Inspirational, Family, Money

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• You will not find in semantics any remedy for decayed teeth or illusions of grandeur or class conflict.

  Alfred Tarski

  Class, Illusions Of Grandeur, Teeth

  Alfred Tarski, Steven R. Givant (1986). “Alfred Tarski, Collected Papers: 1935-1944”

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• A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Science, Errors, Hallucinations

  Bertrand Russell, Robert Charles Marsh (1988). “Logic and Knowledge: Essays 1901-1950”, p.149, Psychology Press

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• You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Positive, Future

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.51, Delta

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• The past is an interpretation. The future is on illusion. The world does not move through time as if it were a straight line, proceeding from the past to the future. Instead, time moves through and within us, in endless spirals. Eternity does not mean infinite time, but simply timelessness. If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Moving, Mean, Past

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• Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. The rude shocks and uncomfortably constraining influences of life disappear among graceful women and poetical men; they are the most deceptive beings in creation; distrust and doubt cannot stand before them; they create what they imagine; if they do not lie to others, they do to their own hearts; for illusion is their element, fiction their vocation, and pleasures in appearance their happiness. Beware of grace in woman, and poetry in man -- weapons the more dangerous because the least dreaded!

  Marquis de Custine

  Lying, Heart, Men

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• Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion.

  Guru Nanak

  Deceiving, Tricks, Egotism

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• There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.

  Daniel Dennett

  People, Way, Dedicated

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