Illusion Quotes - Page 7

Reason is the illusion of reality

Everything that you are or conceive of yourself as being is just an idea. It's an illusion. It's a hallucination.

You will not find in semantics any remedy for decayed teeth or illusions of grandeur or class conflict.

The only freedom is freedom from illusion.

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.

the most all-around, practical, long-wearing illusions are the ones that you weave yourself.

Some illusions...are the shadows of great truths.

Worrying, obsessing, and controlling are illusions. They are tricks we play on ourselves.

God alone is real, and all else is illusion.

There are optical illusions in time as well as space.

Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.

How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.

One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.

Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions.

That’s the great illusion of travel, of course, the notion that there’s somewhere to get to. A place where you can finally say, Ah, I’ve arrived. (Of course there is no such place. There’s only a succession of waitings until you go home.)

I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting.

We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.

I broke down all conclusions into illusions and confusions.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

We manufacture anger to give ourselves the illusion of power when we feel weak and helpless.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

The painter's only solid ground is the palette and colors, but as soon as the colors achieve an illusion, they are no longer judged.

Truth is simple, but Illusion makes it infinitely intricate. The person is rare who possesses an insatiable longing for Truth; the rest allow Illusion to bind them ever more and more.

We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.

Of course she had some pathetic illusions about herself or she would not be able to go on living.