Quotes About Illusion

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.

The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.

The Subconscious mind can not tell the difference between what's real and what's imagined.

It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.

We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it.

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.

Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.

Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines.

Those who seek education in the paths of duty are always deceived by the illusion that power in the hands of friends is an advantage to them.

The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.

Monopoly power is an illusion in any system in which free competition is allowed.

The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.

You get too excited over big flashes, Tunstall. Mages rely on that to make you think they have more power than you.

Power, a paycheck and control do sick things to those who have the illusion of possessing it.

What is fear but that 'thing' that we believed to be as powerful as it pretended to be.

That's what you would do with untold power? Eat cake?

Power and control are an illusion, all we have are the relationship of measured things and incomplete descriptions.

Power is a curious thing. Who lives, Who dies. Power resides where men believe it resides. It is a trick, A shadow on the wall.

I make you see things that aren't really there and you believe every word

You have to realize that modern power, is nothing but a concept in the mind of the one who's under the power. And once you realize this, you realize that authority is indeed an illusion.

Take your desires for reality!" can be understood as the ultimate slogan of power.

Love: I guess It is some kind of magic, It has a power to make us better... But there is the thing magic can sometimes be an illusion and nothing else.

The subconscious mind does not care about what we consciously call reality.