Quotes About Illusion

Men and statues that are admired ire an elevated situation have a very different effect upon us when we approach them; the first appear less than we imagined them, the last bigger.

A man is nothing but breath and shadow.

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes.

Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals.

Great men help dazzle the people; after that, they dazzle themselves even more dangerously.

It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.

Why does the blind man's wife paint herself.

Any man can fart in a closed room and say that he commands the wind

It is an illusion to suppose that a Dictator makes himself; at most he seizes an opportunity made for him by passive, stupid, incompetent, and above all, unsatisfied and fearful men.

There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man who would love me passionately the minute he met me, and all out of a few prosy nothings.

I would catch sight of some flawless man off in the distance, but as soon as he moved closer I immediately saw he wouldn't do at all.

Men have the illusion of having a duty to make the world spin properly, which is precisely what makes it wobble.

Love will never be ideal until man recovers from the illusion that he can be just a little bit faithful or a little bit married.

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should.

Men and women fall in love abandoning reality in favour of the dream

Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.

I'm the luckiest man in the world - performing 500 shows a year and loving what I do - illusion IS my day to day life.

Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.

Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!

The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.

Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'

Man follows only phantoms.

Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

I look like the man in the moon.