Quotes About Illusion

We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.

The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse.

Men throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But the shadows are always longer.

I am the image maker, I am the magic maker, I can turn the most ordinary man in the world into a star.

Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on vanities of man's devising.

So far I'm not seeing a lot of difference between me and a carnival con-man.

Men fell in love with Gilda, but they wake up with me.

The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible.

This life we live is a strange dream, and I don't believe at all any account men give of it.

A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.

It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him.

The man, with his brain, can pierce the intoxicating mirage of things and contemplate a frozen universe in the most perfect indifference to him and his dreams.

We have great power to see the truth when the truth is all we wish to see; but what is easier than to credit what we desire? and can a man deceive anyone so easily as himself?

If all be a Dream, then he doth but dream that he makes the Question; and so it is not much matter that a waking Man should answer him.

Appearances are deceiving.

Damned money! Alas! How many religious did it blind! How many cloistered religious did it deceive! Money is the 'droppings of birds' that blinded the eyes of Tobit.

The fool says, "These are my sons, this is my land, this is my money." In reality, the fool does not own himself, much less sons, land, or money.

People who look for easy money invariable pay for the privilege of proving conclusively that it cannot be found on this earth.

Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.

People have little idea, by and large, of the investment world. They are convinced they have an advantage.

Simply naming objectives isn't sufficient for a vision. If I say that I'm going to build a large palace, but I don't have any money to do so, then that is not a vision - it's an illusion.

We have somehow deluded ourselves into thinking that wealth is wisdom

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.

Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.