Quotes of: Illusions Keyword

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.

Allan Bloom

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

We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.

Benjamin Cardozo

Believing in what you don't know is as true as believing in what you know as long as your life is just an illusion.

Sorin Cerin

Follow the dreams that your heart visualizes, as what you actually see is just an illusion of temporary contentment.

Vikrmn

Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen.

Vladimir Putin

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.

Woody Allen

Way up high in the Shenandoah Mountains where I live, it is difficult to maintain illusions about the natural world. It is dying.

Wil S. Hylton

Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes.

Philip Treacy

That illusion of a world so shaped that it echoes every groan, of human beings so tied together by common needs and fears that a twitch at one wrist jerks another, where however strange your experience other people have had it too, where however far ...

On Being Ill

The empiricist assumes without any evidence or proof that his experiences somehow give him a magical access to reality. So completely does he identify experience and reality that he cannot liberate himself from thinking of the two as one and the same...

What's So Great About Christianity

Through this process, wisdom clarifies the way that the mind manufacturers emotion and karma, and finally penetrates the illusion of self. Just as though one were investigating how a magician created his display of illusions, one studies mental event...

Ways of Enlightenment

Transformation without work and pain, without suffering, without a sense of loss is just an illusion of true change.

Cross Roads

The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.

Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself

Lie, illusion, deception, she said--was that it truly, the universal language we all speak?

Dictation: A Quartet

It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity.

Grendel

The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.

Gooseberries and Other Stories

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

From Here to Eternity

The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.

Big Brother

We all want to believe in impossible things, I suppose, to persuade ourselves that miracles can happen.

The Book of Illusions