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Last updated on December 12, 2024.
Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone.
Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things.
Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.
When you genuinely lose your illusions, you begin to marvel at things, because you don't have the answers any more.
You can watch actors create their illusions, but if you don't see where they get the pigeons from, you don't really know how they're doing it.
Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm.
Wisdom is not having illusions, especially anything in your own mind that elevates you above others.
I have few illusions: the cause is lost in advance. As for me, I do my part, which is to drag a fairly drab existence to its conclusion.
Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.
What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.
Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours.
War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.
I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there's some kind of change.
Imaginations and illusions are always so much more powerful and bigger than this mediocre and boring thing called reality.
Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.
I am almost certain that space and time are illusions. These are primitive notions that will be replaced by something more sophisticated.
Self-interest is an inexhaustible source of convenient illusions. The number of beings who wish to see truly is extraordinarily small.
most of us carry into marriage not only our childlike illusions, but we bring to it as well the demand that it has to be wonderful, because it's supposed to be.
Illusions... are simple facts, but they have been created by the mind, by the spirit, and they are one of the justifications of the new spatial configuration.
...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.
I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.
I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.
The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening.
Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, and all my desires ripen into fruits of love.
Life is a process of losing our illusions, until we finally lose the illusion that we're alive.
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.
[Comedy] is an escape from illusions. The audience is...thinking, 'This bullshit we see and hear all day makes no sense.'
Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and on the other in seeing what we believe.
[Radical leftist] are never been a majority. We just fell for one of the greatest illusions in modern politics.
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
All the manifest forms of existence are but illusions. They are momentary displays of consciousness, flashes of lightening in the sky. They are there for a moment and then they are gone.
The inspiration for my illusions comes from many places. Most often they come from my dreams, or an everyday occurrence in life.
David Brin is a technological determinist. He thinks that we understand the trend and we need to hop on it. I don't have any such illusions.
He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
I have no illusions concerning the precarious status of my tales and do not expect to become a serious competitor of my favorite weird authors.
No doubt the truth is hard to come by for those who do not like the sound of it - dreams and illusions are so much more pleasant.
For awhile, I got stupid about only wanting a leading-man role, but I have no illusions. I know I'm not Brad Pitt.
What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.
So we recast the wisdom of the great thinkers in the shape of our illusions. They are shiny from their makeovers, they are fabulous and gorgeous, and they want us to know that we can have it all.
Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
The Soviet State does not need either illusions or camouflage. It can claim only that world authority which is confirmed by the facts.
Most people live with pleasant illusions, but leaders must deal with hard realities.
Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions.
You are a worksmith and who cares for his brothers, whos not seduced by illusions or fair weather friends.
I don't read novels that are looking to convince me of anything. I believe that literature needs to be a machine of illusions.
Many times, illusions or magic sets are designed as an exposition for the audience to watch, but the the style I do with the pickpocketing is directly interactive.
Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.
The most persistent of all attractive illusions in our country may be that racism can be ended by one single blow.
The world is a complex place, and the influence of the media in its representation and its power of communication and interpretation is a remarkable amplifier of emotions, and of illusions.
I'd always wanted to do these types of things - pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it.
Overconfidence is a powerful source of illusions, primarily determined by the quality and coherence of the story that you can construct, not by its validity.
I don't have any illusions anymore. The illusion that rock 'n' roll could change anything - I don't believe that. I've changed.
'The Mahabharata,' which inspired my novel 'Palace of Illusions,' also has many stories embedded within the main tale.
God has this...hobby. He creates perfection. This world is not perfect. We have to learn to separate illusions from reality.
You will not find in semantics any remedy for decayed teeth or illusions of grandeur or class conflict.
Way up high in the Shenandoah Mountains where I live, it is difficult to maintain illusions about the natural world. It is dying.
Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions.
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
