A Quote by Nancy Gibbs

Illusions are the truths we live by until we know better.

Nancy Gibbs

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Better Illusions Know Live Live By Truths Until

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Nancy Gibbs
American - Journalist
Born: January 25, 1960

Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.

Alexander Pushkin

He emphasised basic truths: you are not dying yet, you have to live your life until you are. Underpinning them was the belief that the grim reality of impending death can be talked away by trying to invest in the present reality of life. I didn’t believe that at the time, but now I do. By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be.

Irvine Welsh

truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors that have become worn-out and deprived of their sensuous force, coins that have lost their imprint and are now no longer seen as coins but as metal.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The only cure for loss of illusions is fresh illusions, more illusions, and always illusions.

William John Locke

Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification, translation and decoration […]; truths are illusions of which we have forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors which have become worn by frequent use and have lost all sensuous vigour […]. Yet we still do not know where the drive to truth comes from, for so far we have only heard about the obligation to be truthful which society imposes in order to exist" from, "On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense".

Friedrich Nietzsche

Some illusions...are the shadows of great truths.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Official truths are often powerful illusions.

John Pilger

A woman can't be, until a girl dies. . . . I mean the sprites that girls are, so different from us, all their fancies, their illusions, their flower world, the dreams they live in.

Christina Stead

Even the most time-honoured truths do not have to be accepted until they are your truths.

Deepak Chopra

What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Democracy, Republic: What do these words signify? What have they changed in the world? Have men become better, more loyal, kinder? Are the people happier? All goes on as before, as always. Illusions, illusions.

Haile Selassie

Om (AUM) is the truth of all truths, the light of all lights and the destroyer of all illusions.

Amit Ray

Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?

Edith Wharton

Reality even when it is sad is better than illusions. Illusions are at the mercy of any winds that blow. Real happiness must come from within, from a fixed purpose and faith in one's fellow men.