Quotes About Illusions

It's a mature thing to understand that your pictures of a lifetime together with someone were... well, the reality is not what we're taught.

Hicieron planes, planes de viajes, planes para la vida. Sus planes eran más reales que su vida.

So I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war, to endure the same old experiences, suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own.

Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.

It is not unusual for the eye or ear to play tricks with one, but when such illusions and delusions are taken for the Spirit forms of the departed and voices of the dead instead of being recognized as some subjective phenomena brought about by a physical cause, the situation takes on a grave aspect.

It's life's illusions that I recall, I really don't know life at all

Lost in these imaginary illusions I forgot my destiny – that of the hunted.

I don't have any illusions that Hollywood is a place of integrity.

L'homme ne poursuit que des chimères. ( Man follows only phantoms .) { His true last words, according to Augustus De Morgan .}

Man is not to fight with other human races, other human individuals, but his work is to bring about reconciliation and Peace and to restore the bonds of friendship and love. We are not like fighting beasts. It is the life of self which is predominating in our life, the self which is creating the seclusion, giving rise to sufferings, to jealousy and hatred, to political and commercial competition. All these illusions will vanish, if we go down to the heart of

Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics.

Every night of our lives, we dream, and our brain concocts visions which are, at least until we wake up, highly convincing. Most of us have had experiences which are verging on hallucination. It shows the power of the brain to knock up illusions.

Now you're free of illusions,' Jack said, pointing to my seed wasting upon the air. 'How does it feel to be free of one's illusions?' And now I answered, 'Painful and empty... But look... there's your universe, and that drip-drop upon the water you hear is all the history you've made, all you're going to make

Illusions are like mistresses. We can have many of them without tying ourselves down to responsibility. But truth insists on marriage. Once a person embraces truth, he is in its ruthless, but gentle, grasp."—Rabazar Tarzs

The man who says that he has no illusions has at least that one.

Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.

The majority of revolutionists are the enemies of discipline and fatigue mostly.  There are natures too, to whose sense of justice the price exacted looms up monstrously enormous, odious, oppressive, worrying, humiliating, extortionate, intolerable.  Those are the fanatics.  The remaining portion of social rebels is accounted for by vanity, the mother of all noble and vile illusions, the companion of poets, reformers, charlatans, prophets, and incendiaries

For every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.

It is of the essence of any party to gain its orientation not from truths but from illusions which usually correspond to the irrational mass structure. Scientific truths only interfered with the habit of the party politicians of avoiding difficulties with the aid of illusions.

Because of the halo effect, we get the causal relationship backward: we are prone to believe that the firm fails because its CEO is rigid, when the truth is that the CEO appears to be rigid because the firm is failing. This is how illusions of understanding are born.

SPEAKING OF SYSTEM 1 AND SYSTEM 2 "He had an impression, but some of his impressions are illusions." "This was a pure System 1 response. She reacted to the threat before she recognized it." "This is your System 1 talking. Slow down and let your System 2 take control.

The Illusions of Pundits The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained

The dead appear to us in dreams

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.