Illusion Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Illusion.
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“Consciousness”
“Wikipedia: Illusion”
“Acting is illusion , as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter of being real.”
“Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.”
“Wiktionary: Illusion”
“Wikicommons: Illusions”
“We are what we are
And what we are is an illusion
We love how it feels
Putting on heels
Causing confusion.”
“Illusions can be created in multitudinous forms, and vary in effectiveness to the degree that your customer wishes to be fooled.”
“Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.”
“You can't live without illusions even if you must fight for them. Such as "love conquers all." It's not true, but I would like it to be so.”
“If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality. p. 20”
“The variety of constraints pressing upon man give rise to the illusion of several distinct species that cannot communicate.”
“When one illusion doesn't work then we become disillusioned and we go around with our antennae up looking for another illusion.”
“The shedding of easy solutions, of comforting illusions may be painful, but it leaves behind it a feeling of freedom and … the absurd which do not seem in any normal sense of the words, to be noteworthy...”
“The world desires illusion (mundus vult decipi)—either the illusion antecedent to reason, which is poetry, or the illusion ...”
“No matter how frequently you visit the realm of dreams, you will inevitably confront the unvarnished truth. However, our truth is so much bitter that not even the entirety of the world's sugar can sweeten it.”
“It's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.”
“Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.”
“And if workers ever thought that the day would come when personal appropriation of capital would profit all by turning it into a stock of wealth to be shared by all, this illusion is vanishing like so many others.”
“As a magician creates a magical illusion by the force of magic, and the illusion produces another illusion, in the same way the agent is a magical illusion and the action done is the illusion created by another illusion.”