Illusion Quotes - Page 17

Illusions are bound to be shattered

All our attachments are outward oriented and hence this illusion.

Crowds create illusions.

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

Consciousness-raising is at the very least supposed to bring about an intimacy, but what it seems instead to bring about are the trappings of intimacy, the illusion of intimacy, a semblance of intimacy.

Illusion never changed into something real.

All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged.

Disillusionment is not truth.

I began to feel that if religion was either an illusion or a revelation, it was simpler to accept it as an illusion.

When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I advance, the happy prospect of futurity shall vanish only with my existence.

If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself...that a tiger is an optical illusion--well, he will find out he is wrong. The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.

The trick was looking past the illusion, because the exit was never as far away as it seemed.

Freedom is an illusion. It always comes at a price.

I'm gregarious with writers and never with manuscripts . . . I [like to] create the illusion of seamless perfection, so I alone know the flawed homely process along the way.

If I live by illusions, you live by excuses.

It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism.

The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young.

A woman should be an illusion

Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West.

Communism has been the greatest and bloodiest illusion that humanity ever bore.

Wisdom comes from disillusionment.

Each individual has to burn out his own karma and escape from the chains of maya (illusion), reincarnation, and all that.

Suffering is an illusion.

Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.

I am fully conscious that a complete presentation of the regions visited is a task beyond my power. All I can strive to do is convey an illusion-my own illusion