Illusion Quotes - Page 12

We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it.

Control is an illusion.

Seek for the endless life in the world, because with death, there remains neither the seeker nor the sought! The other world is altogether an illusion! Stop deceiving yourself; seek for the endless life in the world!

Never content just to be, America is also obliged to mean; America signifies, hence its constant and riveting vulnerability to illusion.

In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.

The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels.

One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.

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

Why did I desert Labour? Total bloody disillusionment. The party was a corpse. It had no ideology, it became detached, old, spineless and needed to go.

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

When I was in high school, we were all laboring under the illusion, or maybe it was a reality, that everyone in our school was a virgin.

Consciousness is the ultimate Reality; compared with it, all else is illusion.

The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.

We must shed the illusion that we can deliberately 'create the future of mankind'

Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.

Sin creates the illusion of freedom. In the end it fools us into seeking freedom from God rather than finding freedom in God.

Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.

In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.

The fresh start is always an illusion but a necessary one.

Bright and illustrious illusions!

If choices and decisions derive from hidden mental processes, then free choice is either an illusion or, at minimum, more tightly constrained than previously considered.

The key is for the audience never to know, so I have a plan B for every illusion.

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