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Optical Illusions Quotes

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Optical Illusions, Transcendentalism, Illusion

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.229, Harvard University Press

The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion

Donna J. Haraway

Reality, Fiction, Optical Illusions

Beauty is the result of clarity and system and not of optical illusion.

Henry van de Velde

Optical Illusions, Clarity, Illusion

There’s no cure for ugly, but you can make yourself into a human optical illusion.

Ugly, Optical Illusions, Cures

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

Errors, Perception, Optical Illusions

Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.43, Ballantine Books

There are optical illusions in time as well as space.

Space, Optical Illusions, Illusion

Marcel Proust (2003). “The prisoner and the fugitive”, ePenguin

The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.

Men, Lines, Optical Illusions

Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.1969, BookCaps Study Guides

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.

Men, Imagination, Optical Illusions

I've never really had a waist. Even when I was at my slimmest, my silhouette was very straight up, straight down. But I have learnt how to give myself a bit of waist by optical illusion. For this, bring on the belts.

Giving, Optical Illusions, Silhouettes

Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is

Strong, Thinking, Optical Illusions

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