Illusion Quotes - Page 14

Drop your identification with the illusion of separateness.

He was suffering from the loss of an illusion.

Ultimately, it's an illusion that you can understand yourself.

Sanity is an illusion caused by alcohol deficiency.

Pain destroys the illusions of false, that is, elitist pleasures. It burns from the inside out. It, therefore, sensitizes us to what is truly beautiful in life.

I am an illusionist - that's why I create art.

However much you paid for a beautiful illusion, you got a bargain.

Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion.

I don't know if it was love or an illusion. I don't know if there's ever a way to be certain.

Deciding under uncertainty is bad enough, but deciding under an illusion of certainty is catastrophic.

All trembling, I reached the Falls of Niagara, and oh, what a scene! My blood shudders still, although I am not a coward, at the grandeur of the Creators power; and I gazed motionless on this new display of the irresistible force of one of His elements.

I'm an idealist without illusions.

Our greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin.

If ever a painter wrought a miracle of illusion with brush and pigment that painter was Velazquez in his Las Meninas, at the Prado in Madrid.

She was wearing the same clothes, but now she looked haggard and dirty. The delicate illusions that get us through life can only stand so much strain.

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

Time is the supreme illusion. It is but the inner prism by which we decompose being and life, the mode under which we perceive successively what is simultaneous in idea.

Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.

For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?

Insight enables you to know your own heart. Clarity enables you to accept without illusion.

I'm under no illusion that the future will be a neat and tidy or desirable world. We will gain a lot of things through necessity and a lot of them through all sorts of fragile dysfunction - not because they're bad ideas but because they will inevitably be adopted in a chaotic, reactive way.

Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion.

Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood at all was probably an illusion.

Poetry is a shuffling of boxes of illusions buckled with a strap of facts.