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Tag Name "Illusion" (1293)

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All is but illusion and disaster.
Voltaire
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Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application.
Voltaire
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The two of you are getting downright chatty, aren't you, Ms. Lane? When did you last see him? what else did he tell you? I'm asking the questions tonight. If an illusion of control comforts you, Ms. Lane, by all means, cling to it.
Karen Marie Moning
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Life never ceases. Life is an overflowing source, and death is only an obscure effect of illusions.
Andre Luiz Moreira
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Reality is an illusion that occurs due to the lack of alcohol.
W. C. Fields
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
John Galsworthy
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It is sweet to die young! It is sweet to render to God a life still full of illusions!
Andre Chenier
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Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.
Anatole France
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Obviously invidious and prejudicial stereotypes need to be deconstructed and overcome, but it's not that they can be destroyed. I think that would be an illusion to think that we can somehow get rid of these basic search templates that allow us to sort out our social lives and to sort out the material world as well.
W. J. T. Mitchell
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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
W. Somerset Maugham
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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Women are strange little beasts,' he said to Dr. Coutras. 'You can treat them like dogs, you can beat them till your arm aches, and still they love you.' He shrugged his shoulders. 'Of course, it is one of the most absurd illusions of Christianity that they have souls.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions have given them? Give me your hat.
Anais Nin
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled in them, and each time they come into contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.
W. Somerset Maugham
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I have loved works of fiction precisely for their illusions, for the author's sleight-of-hand in showing me the magic, what appeared in the right hand but not in the left.
Amy Tan
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We pray because our life comes from God and we yield it back in prayer. Prayer is a great antidote to the illusion that we are self-made.
Walter Brueggemann
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When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.
Walter Darby Bannard
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We manufacture anger to give ourselves the illusion of power when we feel weak and helpless.
Sophie Hannah
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When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses.
Walter Russell
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I had this illusion that if I kind of dressed badly that I wouldn't stand out. You know, so I actually went out of my way to not look different to the extent I could.
Lisa Randall
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Leaders dig into their business to learn painful realities rather than peaceful illusion.
Orrin Woodward
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Life attacks us like a blind beast. It swallows up time, the years of our life, it passes like a typhoon and leaves nothing behind. Not even memory, because memory is made of the same swift, ungraspable substance out of which illusions emerge and then disappear.
Álvaro Mutis
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What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful illusions, and shattering his altar?
Alphonse de Lamartine
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Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation and the disillusioning knowledge of truth. 'Lost Illusion' is the undisclosed title of every novel.
Andre Maurois
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