Quotes About Illusion

First appearance deceives many.

Appearances are often deceiving.

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!

I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow.

In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.

And I don't believe that children are innocent. In fact, no one seriously believes that. Just go to a playground and watch the kids playing in the sandbox! The romantic notion of the sweet child is simply the parents projecting their own wishes.

Any real belief in death is just wishful thinking.

Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.

Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.

I can't explain witchcraft.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

I believe there should be no arbitrary date set for withdrawal and yet no permanent, unending deployment. No cut and run, yet measured progress in helping a people who want to be free without an illusion of overnight success.

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.

In this miraculous, beautiful universe of ours, where it's an absolute miracle that our eyes and ears can witness it all, we somehow have bought into this lie that the highest plane of existence is whether we put an R or a D on our voter registration card. That's insanity.

We have witnessed Chernobyl, Bhopal, Challenger, Seveso, Amoco Cadiz, Three Mile Island and have still not wakened from our fantasy that large organizations can carry out complex technologies on a huge scale with total perfection.

'Primeval' is very similar to 'Footballers' Wives' - it's pure fantasy.

In 1900, as the immigrants come down the gangplank into Jersey City, they expect the streets to be paved with gold, and they were only paved with gold in Frank Baum's 'The Wizard of Oz,' of course.