Quotes About Illusion

Insincerity in a man's own heart must make all his enjoyments, all that concerns him, unreal; so that his whole life must seem like a merely dramatic representation.

I remember when people said, "Man, that's a powerful scene in the movie!" and I was like, "We just shot this thing before lunch, I don't know, he tears a log apart, I said some words".

Modern man's difficulties, dangerous beliefs and feelings of loneliness, spiritual emptiness,and personal weakness are caused by his illusions about, and separation from, the natural world.

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

Man errs not that he deems His welfare his true aim, He errs because he dreams The world does but exist that welfare to bestow.

If you can create even the illusion of high profitability for a few years, then when the thing collapses you can walk out of the wreckage a very rich man.

A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.

Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language.

Fashion: a barricade behind which men hide their nothingness.

To many men much-wandering hope comes as a boon, but to many others it is the deception of vain desires.

Nothing is real beyond imaginative patterns men make of reality.

That Man, who flees from truth, should have invented the mirror is the greatest of historical miracles.

It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream, to hell.

Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.

The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

One man's faith is another man's delusion

Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.

One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.

Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life.

Naw, it's like ants up there, man. Like ants that sound like lions!

Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion.

[Calling you a] star is just a trick. It's like a straw man thing. They [people] set you up just to knock you over. It's bull. You avoid it, I avoid it.

The unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.

...a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.