Illusion Quotes - Page 6

May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.

We put our values in the wrong things. And it leads to very disillusioned lives.

An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time

Adulthood brings with it a pernicious illusion of control.

Beauty is a question of optics. All sight is illusion.

Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.

What you wish for, what you most hope for - that is your greatest illusion.

We are not disillusioned because we have no illusions... What we have and what is our strength, is our joy in life... in all its amoral aspects. That is also the basis of our contemporary art.

... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills and diseases of mankind, whether imaginary or real. You will not find in semantics any remedy for decayed teeth or illusions of grandeur or class conflict. Nor is semantics a device for establishing that everyone except the speaker and his friends is speaking nonsense

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour.

When someone says 'I'm so disillusioned', I say 'Congratulations! You've lost another illusion.'

It's all right to be disillusioned, but you can't be disillusioning.

The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.

Aid my disillusionment, my friend!

After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.

Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone.

Time is an illusion.

The illusion is we are only physical.

We are the fingertips of blind illusion, You are the absolute Cause of causes.

I have few illusions: the cause is lost in advance. As for me, I do my part, which is to drag a fairly drab existence to its conclusion.

Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours.

The worlds of Truth (love) and illusion (fear) are like parallel universes; with every thought we make a choice which one to inhabit

[T]ruth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred

The illusion of randomness gradually disappears as the skill in chart reading improves.