I leave you 71 Phrases of illusion Of authors such as George Bernard Shaw, Orson Welles, Jean Paul Sartre, Michael Jordan, Einstien and Sigmund Freud.
Illusions are those deceptive, but not always evil, images that we glimpse on the horizon and that can serve us to wreck us, or to keep us in hope when there is nothing more real around. Illusions are always attractive scenarios, and appear in any area of our life.
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1- Nothing is sadder than the death of an illusion. Arthur Koestler
2- The biggest problem in communication is the illusion that has taken its place. George Bernard Shaw
3- I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that it is probably awake. Lewis Black
4- We live in a world of fantasies, a world of illusion. Our great task in life is to discover reality.
5- We are born alone, we live alone and we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we are not alone. Orson Welles
6- If we fully understand hallucination and delusion, then you will not blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is rope or demented, over the abyss.
7 - It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes from century to century, from generation to generation, might not be completely false. Pierre Bayle
8- Life is an illusion. I hold myself solidly in nothingness because of art. Anselm Kiefer.
9- A writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And the writer must cling to this illusion even though he knows that it is not true. John Steinbeck
10- There is no such thing as conversation. It's all an illusion. There are only monologues that intercept, that's all. Rebecca West
11- The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. Daniel J. Boorstin.
12- A great amount of intelligence can be inverted in ignorance when the need to have an illusion is deep. Saul Bellow
13- Love can sometimes turn out to be magical. But magic can sometimes prove to be an illusion. Javan
14- Love is the son of illusion and the father of disillusionment. Miguel de Unamuno
15- A house must be built with solid foundations if it is to be built to last. The same principle applies to men, otherwise man would also sink into the soft and serious ground engulfed by the world of illusions. Sai Baba
16- I believe that the search for happiness is actually the search for reality because an illusion does not leave us totally happy. Parker Palmer.
17- I have always enjoyed the magic of poetry, but now I am beginning to see behind the curtains even some of the best poets, how they have used, have tried and tested the art to create an illusion. A wonderful feeling of joy finally there.
18- Reality is merely an illusion, although it is a very persistent illusion. Albert Einstein
19- Life ceases to make sense the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal. Jean Paul Sartre.
20- Do not be fooled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground full of illusions, full of false paths, false values and false ideas. But you are not part of that world. Sai Baba
21. Limits, such as fear, are often an illusion. Michael Jordan.
22- What is life? Crazy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest kindness is small, for all life is a dream, and dreams are but dreams.
23- The problem lies in how you are going to spend this strange and precious life that you have been given. If you are going to spend trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or if instead, you will try it, you will enjoy it and you will find the truth about who you are. Anne Lamott.
24. If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and well-being, between good and evil, is also a simple illusion.
25- I have realized that the past and the future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and only what there is. Alan W Watts.
No, our science is no illusion. But it would be an illusion to suppose that what science can not give us can be found elsewhere. Sigmund Freud.
27- [The horror fiction] shows us that the control we think we have is a pure illusion, and that we totter at any moment between chaos and oblivion. Clive Barker
28- Dreams give us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of humors, like a beaded necklace, and as we pass through them, they show us that they are many-colored lenses that paint the world with their own hue. Ralph Waldo Emerson.
29- Religion is an illusion and its strength derives from the fact that it fits with our most instinctive desires. Sigmund Freud.
30- It's much harder to kill a ghost than to kill a reality. Virginia Woolf.
31- An illusion is an illusion. Reality always exists despite the facade. Kasie West.
32- To be able to share the true brilliance initially one has to run the risk of appearing like a fool: the genius is like a wheel that rotates so fast, that at first sight seems to be still.
There is an old illusion. It's called good and bad. Friedrich Nietzsche
34- If it looks real, and feels real, do you think it matters if it's real? Daniel Nayeri.
35- People reject what they do not understand because it makes them feel small. People would rather believe in another reality, even if it is a mere illusion, while it makes them feel bigger. Suzy Kassem.
There is an optical illusion about every person we know. Ralph Waldo Emerson.
37- If you can speak brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that the problem has been mastered.
38- How strong is when an illusion dies. It's as hard as when you've lost a child. Judy Garland.
39 - We waste valuable time in dreams, born of the imagination, fed by illusion, and brought to death by reality. Judy Garland
40. What we call family pride is often founded on an illusion of self-love. A man desires to perpetuate himself and immortalize himself. Alexis De Tocqueville
41. In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusions, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power. Marianne Williamson.
42. Ugliness is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and it is also supposed to be the worst crime that can be committed as a woman. But ugliness, as well as beauty, is nothing but illusions. Margaret Cho.
We were talking about the space between us and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusions. The truth is never glimpsed. Then it is too late when they are gone. George Harrison.
44. Fantasy is a static bicycle for the mind. Maybe I can not get you anywhere, but it gives the muscles tone that they can. Terry Pratchett
45- Rooting is the greatest fabricator of illusions; Reality can only be attained by those who are uprooted. Simone Weil
46. All religions, my friend, are simply made of fraud, fear, greed, imagination and poetry. Edgar Allan Poe.
47- The action is comforting. She is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions. Joseph Conrad.
48. Illusory joy is often more valuable than genuine pain. Rene Descartes.
49- What a strange illusion is the supposition that beauty is goodness. Leo Tolstoy
50- Romantic love is an illusion. Many of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or when the sweet emotions of love lead us to marriage and then extinguish their flames. Thomas Moore.
51. All journey into the past is complicated because of disappointments, false memories and false names of actual events. Adrienne Rich.
The distinction between the past, the present, and the future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. Albert Einstein.
53- Illusion is the first of all pleasures. Voltaire.
54- Decorate your house. That gives you the illusion that your life is more interesting than it actually is. Charles M. Schulz
55. Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world. Arnold Newman
56- Photography is a virtual reality spice, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world. Steven Pinker
57- Tradition is the illusion of permanence. Woody Allen
58. A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a completely vulgar conception, which has no sound in it and has nothing true. Socrates.
59- Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, therefore what you see is not what you see. Philip Guston
60. Whatever happens in the world is real, what you think should have happened is a projection. We suffer more from our fictional illusions and expectations of reality. Jacque Fresco.
61. Everything he had done until May 27, 1999 was a kind of illusion, to exist without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life. Johnny Depp
The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential illusion. Letting the illusion of the ego become your identity can prevent you from knowing your own self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is the opposite way of judging and living life. Wayne Dyer.
63. It is true that it is wrong to be full of faults; But it is a greater evil to be full of them and not to be willing to recognize them, since it is to add the greater lack of a voluntary illusion. Blaise Pascal.
64. I simply believe that as a model, I have been taught to be a teacher of deception and illusion. Tyra Banks
65. Religion provides the only history that is fundamentally consoling in confronting the worst possible experiences. The death of a relative for example. In fact, many religions take the problem completely out of the way, because their followers apparently believe that they are going to meet with all those they love, and death is no more than an illusion. Sam Harris.
66- Because fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before being swallowed into oblivion. Al Goldstein.
67- I may complicate things without necessity only to give the illusion of professionalism. Henry Thomas.
68. Infinite love is the only truth, everything else is an illusion. David Icke.
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. Ludwig Borne.
70- After a crisis we tell ourselves that we understand why we pass and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In reality, we should accept that the world is incomprehensible most of the time. Daniel Kahneman.
You are priests, not political or social leaders. Let us not fall into the illusion that we serve the gospel by an exaggerated interest in the broad field of temporal problems. Pope Juan Pablo II