Quotes About Illusions

What I immediately recognized about Wall Street in 1983 was that it was a continuation of my career in theater. Wall Street is a big theater, and it's all illusions.

He still had, you see, illusions about Christians.

Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour.

The great collective illusions, anaemic from shedding the blood of so many, have since given way to the thousands of prepacked ideologies sold by consumer society like so many portable brain-scrambling machines. Will

Los sueños son eso de lo que uno se despierta.

by uncovering the illusions and finding the gifts they've masked, we can grow, and begin to feel more love and gratitude for our relatives. This is the true healing process.

Soon as you realize you're immortal," he said, "declare the power of Love even when it seems invisible, you'll go far beyond the illusions of space and time. In all history, the one power you never lose is your power of letting go of space and time, the joy of dying that is no wicked thing, it comes in love, to everyone.

Escucha!—gritó a través del espacio que nos separaba—. ¿Este mundo? ¿Y todo lo que hay en él? ¡Ilusiones, Richard! ¡Todo en él son ilusiones! ¿Lo entiendes?

I adored you without thinking of you physically. I kissed your smile and adored your illusions.

Rather, what happened to human illusions was that they crumbled, they withered away. It was a long and wearisome process, like a toothache reaching far into the soul. But you can pull out a tooth and it will be gone. Illusions, however, even when dead, continue to rot and stink within us. We cannot escape their taste and smell. We carry them around with us all the time.

Singur?tatea era o sete nesatisf?cut? de iluzii.

These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly. Fashion is about dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women.

The demand to give up the illusions about its condition is the demand to give up a condition that needs illusions

To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is therefore in embryo the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo

Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.

It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.

The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.

Words are naught but wind, and the fairest promises like dreams that take flight with the morning.

Those who become entangled in these false ideas are prevented from perceiving the Integral Oneness.

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

Verse is a mechanism by which we can create interpretative illusions suggesting profoundities of response and understanding which far exceed the engagement or research of the writer.

Poetry is a shuffling of boxes of illusions buckled with a strap of facts.

I'm an idealist without illusions.