"I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury."

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"Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this well enough, and in the Buddhist Yoga an exact technique was devised for unmasking the illusion of the personality. The human merry-go-round sees many changes: the illusion that cost India the efforts of thousands of years to unmask is the same illusion that the West has labored just as hard to maintain and strengthen."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

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"A woman should be an illusion."

Ian Fleming, British Author

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"They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to imprint the image of their fantasy."

Anais Nin, American Author

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"Trying to get prosperity through prophet offering is running after shadows."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Illusion, Prosperity, ProphetOffering, Faith

"If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered."

Stanley Kubrick, American Director

Illusion, Talk

"Never for one minute have I taken you for reality . . . You are a lie, you are my illness, you are a phantom . . . You are my hallucination. You are the incarnation of myself . . . of my thoughts and feelings, but only the nastiest and stupidest of them."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

Illusion, Reality, Mental Health, Self

"They're not even within 100 miles of Baghdad. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion... they are trying to sell to the others an illusion."

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Iraqi Public Servant

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"A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion."

Sai Baba, Indian Leader

Illusion, Man, Will, World

"Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?"

Rumi, Persian Poet

Illusion, Struggle, Perception, Barrier

"Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world."

Arnold Newman, American Photographer

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"Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time."

Men

"Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737."

Time

"Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time."

Time

"Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything."

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"The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities."

Performance

"To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight."

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"A woman should be an illusion."

"They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to imprint the image of their fantasy."

"Trying to get prosperity through prophet offering is running after shadows."

"If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered."

"Never for one minute have I taken you for reality . . . You are a lie, you are my illness, you are a phantom . . . You are my hallucination. You are the incarnation of myself . . . of my thoughts and feelings, but only the nastiest and stupidest of them."

"They're not even within 100 miles of Baghdad. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion... they are trying to sell to the others an illusion."

"A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion."

"Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?"

"Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world."

Explore more quotes by Sydney Smith

"Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time."

"Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737."

"Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time."

"I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so."

"Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done."

"What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?"

"Heaven never helps the men who will not act."

"Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything."

"The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities."

"To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight."