Quotes About Illusions

Materialism is adept at transforming illusions of possibility into settled verities.

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

Feelings which flourish on illusions, and sicken and die on realities, aren't worth considering.

Everything is God. Everything is light. It is only when we live in illusions, when there are shadows in our mind that we are afraid.

The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.

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.

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

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

We don't attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to be true in the moment.

What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?

God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone's heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth.

Never say never because limits, like fears, are often illusions.

It was innocents who died, not those born with the strength of no illusions.

Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths? Isn't it a sufficient condemnation of society to find one's self accepting such phraseology?

Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths.

Polish Count must have robbed her of her fortune as well as of her illusions.

Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf mean who's afraid of the big bad wolf…who's afraid of living without false illusions

Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.

La mayoría de las mujeres forjan sueños equivocados del amor; su imaginación las lleva a célicas visiones, perjudiciales, en razón de lo exagerado. Es así, como, para muchas mujeres la vida se divide en dos mundos: el que imaginaron y el que viven.

the evils against which we contend are frequently the fruits of illusions which are similar to our own.

Humankind exhausts, little by little, all illusions, including inferior notions of God swept away by atheism.

Despite the smooth illusions perpetrated by mass culture in the United States, sexual gratification is not a sacred right, and celibacy is not a fate worse than death.

It's only our faith in illusions that makes life possible. It's believing in reality that does us in every time.