Quotes About Illusions

As you grow up, and you'll find this, you keep getting involved with larger and larger illusions that take longer and longer to fall away. The great hope is eventually to find a delusion that will outlast your life.

Of all the illusions of childhood, the one he hated to lose most was this: that humans worked according to unspoken but noble goals, that they followed an intrinsic path to justice, that they would resist error and move toward self-understanding.

There is no fear and there is no greed in love, just as there is no authority or control, which is why it is beyond illusions of power.

These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again.

Das ist das Problem mit Wünschen, Herr Schwartz. Nur die falschen gehen sofort in Erfüllung.

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years.

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

The trouble with illusions... is that you aren't aware you have any until they are taken from you

Any time you try to collapse the distance between your delusions about the past and what really happened, there's suffering involved.

Dissection and surgical instruction, like meat-eating, require a carefully maintained set of illusions and denial.

Deeply entrenched fantasies and persistent, most cherished illusions can at least partly be explained as 'bugs' or 'viruses' in, or 'mis-activations' of, our sophisticated and highly sensitive intellectual software, which is driven but also easily disrupted by, and addicted to, our restless and insatiable need for meaning, order, control, and reassurance.

Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.

Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet

I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People weren't meant to be together forever, regardless of what the songs say.

It is respectable to have illusions - and safe - and profitable, and dull

For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities --a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces --a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.

Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of illusions.

Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations, our illusions, our fidelity to the truth, and our persistent leanings to error. But most of all they resemble us in their precious hold on life.

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.

Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired.

In my reporting, I've found that real change escapes many change-makers because powerful illusions guide their projects.

Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.

I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to them.