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Quotes About Illusion

Sometimes there is a microcosm and a macrocosm, and if you're dyslexic like me you can't tell the difference.
~ Bruce Bickford
Our vision is more obstructed by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge.
~ Krister Stendahl
We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the version of the world they really believed in.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.
~ Longchenpa
Eternal peace is a dream - and not even a beautiful one.
~ Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
Without justice and love, peace will always be a great illusion.
~ Hélder Câmara
Perpetual peace is a futile dream.
~ George S. Patton
If there's no world 'out there' what are you reacting to? Ask yourself that question every moment of every day when your peace is disturbed.
~ Kenneth Wapnick
Now that I have created moe, men of the world will never know peace as they struggle with the pitfalls of 3D.
~ Satoshi Kon
Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
~ Jack Kornfield
Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion.
~ William Butler Yeats
Sometimes peace looks like war, you cannot tell them apart.
~ Hilary Mantel
even The bed of love, that in the imagination Had seemed to be the giver of all peace, Is no more than a wine-cup in the tasting, And as soon finished.
~ William Butler Yeats
That's the key to walking through the Wall.... You have to first see it as not being a Wall, even though everyone you know still sees it as a Wall.
~ Kevin J. Shay
Peace becomes a fantasy when egos are promoted and facts distorted.
~ Duop Chak Wuol
Being in love is highly overrated.book: stuff i think about
~ Sondra Faye
The zoo cannot but disappoint.
~ John Berger
If you want to realize yourselves all your pet illusions must be unmasked.
~ Mina Loy
Life is a loom, weaving illusion.
~ Vachel Lindsay
The map is not the territory.
~ Alfred Korzybski
Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.
~ Gary Snyder
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
~ Voltaire, La Pucelle D'Orleans
I got an A in philosophy because I proved my professor didn't exist.
~ Judy Tenuta
Look poor, think rich.
~ Andy Warhol