Illusion Quotes - Page 9

...I know all about myself now, I know. You've told me so often. You haven't left me one rag of illusion to clothe myself in.

The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.

We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind.

We all have our little illusions about our own mental abilities.

The poetry of fashion lies in the creation of illusion

The principal task of friendship is to foster one`s friends` illusions.

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time

Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?

Confidence is the illusion born of accidental success.

Illusion throughout is illusion. There is no end to it, just as there is no end to imagination.

Also, I had not yet found out about time; I was still under the illusion that I had plenty of time - time for this, time for that, time for everything, time to waste.

The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.

When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it.

What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion

Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.

My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion.

There's truths you have to grow into.

Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.

Illusion is brief, but repentance is long.

truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors that have become worn-out and deprived of their sensuous force, coins that have lost their imprint and are now no longer seen as coins but as metal.

We live alone, we die alone. Everything else is just an illusion.

Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.