Quotes About Illusion

The feature of living matter that most demands explanation is that it is almost unimaginably complicated in directions that convey a powerful illusion of deliberate design.

Everybody is designing magic iPhone apps that do things that are really, really beautiful, but a really important thing about magic is that the gimmick has to be ugly.

The slot machines sit there like young courtesans, promising pleasures undreamed of, your deepest desires fulfilled, all lusts satiated.

I don't want realism. I want magic!

For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel.

The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.

The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.

The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.

My preference for clear structures is the result of my desire - perhaps illusory - to keep track of things and maintain my grip on the world.

There is no fire like passion. There are no chains like hate. Illusion is a net, Desire is a rushing river.

There is a city in which you find everything you desire-handsome people, pleasures, ornaments of every kind-all that the natural person craves. However, you cannot find a single wise person there.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.

Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.

Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no superstitions - it is beyond the vain desires of the body.

Desire is like the shadow caused by the morning sun; it gets longer when you run to catch it.

I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.

But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion.

Emotion arise from Desire, hence an Illusion.

To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow.

Man, the creature who knows he must die, who has dreams larger than his destiny, who is forever working a confidence trick on himself, needs an ally. Mine has been tobacco.

It is the shared bad faith by which individuals help each other sustain the illusion that they can shirk their spiritual destiny by joining the public.

William Shakespeare

Even the models we see in magazines wish they could look like their own images.