Quotes About Illusions

The worldly life means a puzzle of 'wrong beliefs'.

People die when they see life at last without Illusions. For some, it takes many, many years; for others, much less. And so each of us commits suicide: when we will our own deaths: That is the only Death.

All knowledge pushed to its limit can be dangerous, and morbid, because life is endurable solely because we don't see it through to the end. An undertaking is only possible if we have conserved a minimum of illusions. Complete lucidity is the void!

Men follow only those who give them illusions. There have never been gatherings around a disillusioned.

Nebunia veget?rii f?r? nici un scop distruge pân? la urm? ÅŸi iluziile erotice.

A te lipsi de iluziile tale e totuna cu a atenta la propria-?i fiin??.

Quando non si hanno più illusioni su di sè, non se ne conservano sugli altri.

The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.

The persistence of this imagery calls to mind what Ludwik Fleck termed 'the self-contained' nature of scientific thought. As he described it, 'the interaction between what is already known, what remains to be learned, and those who are to apprehend it, go to ensure harmony within the system. But at the same time they also preserve the harmony of illusions, which is quite secure within the confines of a given thought style.

You're learning. So why don't we stop pretending? It's so much easier when you give up all those illusions and realize that the only justice you'll get in this life is the justice you dish out. It's a dog-eat-dog world out there, mate. You need to sharpen your teeth. Don't get angry. Get even.

The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.

Illusions can be pleasant, but the rewards of truth are enormously better.

Carl faced his death with unflagging courage and never sought refuge in illusions. The tragedy was that we knew we would never see each other again. I don't ever expect to be reunited with Carl. But, the great thing is that when we were together, for nearly twenty years, we lived with a vivid appreciation of how brief and precious life is. We never trivialized the meaning of death by pretending it was anything other than a final parting.

God's revelation... unmasks our illusions about ourselves. It exposes our pride, our individualism, our self-centeredness - in short, our sin. But worship also offers forgiveness, healing, transformation, motivation, and courage to work in the world for God's justice and peace - in short, salvation in its largest sense.

If there were no illusions, there would bo no disillusionment. But then one would have no fond memories either, with which fortify oneself against the pain of the reality.

An era can be considered over when its basic illusions have been exhausted.

But, like the rest of mankind, we lived our lives unconscious as children, full of imagination, ideals, and illusions, and then we awoke; it was all over.

What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.

The causes of illusions are not pretty to discover. They're either vicious or tragic.

Some people have remarkably sturdy illusions.

We all need illusions. That's why we love movies.

All of us insist upon our illusions, upon substituting dreams and distorted memories for the real thing.

Para ser felices debemos deshacernos de nuestros prejuicios, poseer virtudes, gozar de una buena salud, tener inclinaciones y pasiones, porque pobres de aquellos que pierden la capacidad de tener ilusiones.

One sees so many kinds of men, one finds about one the relics of so many philosophies, one is astonished to meet, still surviving, so many illusions.