Illusion Quotes - Page 4
"Closing of the American Mind".
The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.1081, Dell
Erich Fromm (1950). “The Fear of Freedom”
What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes.
Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”
Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”
Song: Only Love Is Real, Album: Thoroughbred, 1976
Realize all this as illusion, realize that within the illusion is the Real.
Swami Vivekananda (1997). “A Concordance to Swami Vivekananda: A-H”
In my youth I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them.
"History of the Captivity of Napoleon at St. Helena" by Charles-Tristan de Montholon, Vol. 3, (p. 187), 1847.
Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.
Eugene Ionesco, Charles Marowitz (2015). “Exit the King, The Killer, Macbett”, p.15, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
All the people we used to know, they're an illusion to me now.
Song: Tangled Up in Blue