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Illusion Quotes
"If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion."
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"Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten."
"It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false."
"You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems."
"Money can make life comfortable, solve some problems and bring temporary satisfaction, but true happiness and joy is not guaranteed by money."
"The miracle centered gospel leads to getting something from nothing."
"Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion."
"Trying to get prosperity through laying of hands is running after shadows."
"When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction."
"You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow."
"Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces."
"Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish."
"If you will conduct a poll with most people in our world today and ask them to tell you what is the ideal life they dream about. Most people will tell you that they are dreaming of having a house on an island, but really they are spending away and whining away their lives."
"How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child."
"A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him."
"We have an illusion of security, we don't have security."
"There's also something of an illusion in that, you can perhaps record a TV thing one month and complete a book the next and then be in a play. Then, if they all come out at once, it looks as if you're actually juggling a million things."
"Most people who spend their lives are dreaming of having a summer house somewhere in the suburb of their city where they could lie in the hot sun all day long, drinking coffee and juice. They think they are enjoying life, but really they are spending life."
"Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world."
"The occupation and robbery of a nation occurs under the illusion of freeing its citizens from brutal oppression."
"There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion."
"The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages."
"Don't trust a mirror that only tells you how wonderful you look."
"It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it."
"Trying to get prosperity through prophet offering is running after shadows."
"It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'"
"Ultimately, it's an illusion that you can understand yourself."
"What you see is not real. It is a misinterpretation of our false perceptions."
"What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet."
"I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury."
"Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality."
"If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered."
"Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them."
"Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow."
"They're not even within 100 miles of Baghdad. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion... they are trying to sell to the others an illusion."
"Trying to get prosperity through seed of faith is running after shadows."
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