Quotes About Illusions

In fact, we have suffered under a variety of illusions about who and what we are that have kept us trapped in a prison of materialistic thought.

It is difficult to keep illusions on any subject in Paris," answered Lucien as they turned in at his door. "There is a tax upon everything — everything has its price, and anything can be made to order — even success.

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.

Doubt frees us from illusions of having captured God in a creed; it calls into question every religious symbol.

Men will clutch illusions when they have nothing else to hold onto.

Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.

The only cure for loss of illusions is fresh illusions, more illusions, and always illusions.

The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the spirit that preserves them, and the form may remain unaltered when the substance has passed away.

Illusions may fade, but the sublime remains.

I had left romantic illusions behind me. I must make up for lost time now. I must work hard, but just when one has left the lost illusions behind, work becomes a necessity and one of the few pleasures left. And this gives a great quiet and tranquillity.

I love it, it devours me. I adore it without illusions.

The mere reality of life would be inconceivably poor without the charm of fancy, which brings in its bosom as many vain fears as idle hopes, but lends much oftener to the illusions it calls up a gay flattering hue than one which inspires terror.

We would rather be ruined than changed We would rather die in our dread Than climb the cross of the moment And let our illusions die.

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and see our illusions die.

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the present and let our illusions die.

The way you're singing in your sleep The way you look before you leap The strange illusions that you keep You don't know But I'm noticing Fuck

I'm definitely attracted to the idea of people that have these big aspirations that the audience know might never happen, but they're lost in them.

Necessary illusions enable us to live.

In politics, as in every other sphere of life, there are two important principles for a man of any sense: don't cherish too many illusions, and never stop believing that every little bit helps.

I don't want to destroy too many illusions. We're walking a tightrope. If you fall on one side it's no good, because we're showing too much. If you fall on the other side it's no good, because we're not showing anything and we look like arrogant jerks.

If you're going to have delusions, you might as well go for the really satisfying ones.

The pattern-like quality of the picture surface, together with the opulent materials and the flatness of the image (there are no illusions of space or depth in this painting), are all characteristics of a mode of painting known as International Gothic.

We have become so accustomed to our illusions that we mistake them for reality.

Not all illusions are visual. There are illusions of thought, which we call cognitive illusions.