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Illusion Quotes
"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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"Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality."
15
"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."
14
"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."
12
"Forever' is an illusion that human beings promise each other when they are horny, or, trying to appear holy."
11
"What staggers me is not the persistence of illusion, but the persistence of the world in the face of illusion."
11
"The occupation and robbery of a nation occurs under the illusion of freeing its citizens from brutal oppression."
10
"What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet."
10
"Many realities hidden behind wall of perception."
9
"Illusion means to weigh right and wrong with the same scale."
9
"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."
9
"Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish."
9
"How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child."
9
"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."
9
"We have an illusion of security, we don't have security."
9
"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."
9
"I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury."
9
"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."
9
"Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion."
8
"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."
8
"Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them."
8
"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."
8
"Your riches cannot save you from fornication."
8
"We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy."
8
"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."
7
"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."
7
"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."
7
"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.'"
7
"If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion."
7
"To imagine the Self where it is not, is called maya (deceit)."
7
"Money can make life comfortable, solve some problems and bring temporary satisfaction, but true happiness and joy is not guaranteed by money."
6
"The person performing the experiment becomes the object of the experiment himself, this is known as the illusion!"
6
"There is no such thing as relationships in this world. It is really a self-created net. Do these cows-buffalos have any relationships? They don't have a mother-in-law, no father-in-law..."
6
"When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction."
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