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Illusion Quotes
"Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten."
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"You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems."
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"Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow."
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"There's also something of an illusion in that, you can perhaps record a TV thing one month and complete a book the next and then be in a play. Then, if they all come out at once, it looks as if you're actually juggling a million things."
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"The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages."
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"Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality."
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"What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet."
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"You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow."
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"We have an illusion of security, we don't have security."
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"The occupation and robbery of a nation occurs under the illusion of freeing its citizens from brutal oppression."
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"Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end."
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"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."
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"Forever' is an illusion that human beings promise each other when they are horny, or, trying to appear holy."
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"Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish."
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"To imagine the Self where it is not, is called maya (deceit)."
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"If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion."
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"What staggers me is not the persistence of illusion, but the persistence of the world in the face of illusion."
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"The person performing the experiment becomes the object of the experiment himself, this is known as the illusion!"
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"How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child."
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"To believe the control is in your hands when it is in the hands of some other power, is indeed a wrong belief (bhranti, illusion). If one were to understand even this much, he will find a solution. When people begin to understand that the power is in the hands of something else, then the wrong belief [illusion] will go away to a little extent."
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"I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury."
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"We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy."
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"Many realities hidden behind wall of perception."
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"As long as one is ruled by illusion, one's thinking process is also illusory and that is nothing but misery. In Gnanis' [the enlightened one's] language, there is no such thing as happiness or unhappiness."
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"Illusion means to weigh right and wrong with the same scale."
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"A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him."
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"Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them."
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"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."
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"It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false."
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"Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces."
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"If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered."
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"Your riches cannot save you from fornication."
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"Money can make life comfortable, solve some problems and bring temporary satisfaction, but true happiness and joy is not guaranteed by money."
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"Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion."
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"It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'"
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