Illusory Quotes

• Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion - and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion ... while Truth again reverts to a new minority.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Truth
  • Opinion
  • Stronger

• I had a number of different labels. A lot of people assumed I was gay because I was wearing a man's suit, and one had to learn that it's OK, people will do that, and you don't always have to explain it one hundred percent, because they're never going to accept what your own interpretation is. It's all illusory.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Learn
  • Gay
  • Numbers

• Online gambling is very seductive and very illusory. It can seem like a really good idea. It can seem like what people told you to work hard and get ahead, but when someone shows you something and it's too good to be true, it probably is.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• The contrasts and contradictions that can permanently live peacefully side by side in a skull make all the systems of political optimists and pessimists illusory.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Live
  • Contradictions
  • Optimists

• Existence is illusory and it is eternal.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Existence
  • Eternal
  • Illusory

• ...perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinction. Apart from the fact that no penalty is imposed for not sharing them, my illusions are not, like religious ones, incapable of correction.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Nature
  • Incapable
  • Correction

• You don't have to push or pull or fight or win, the struggle is illusory. Sometimes or rather, all times, you just have to be.

  

  Andrew McMahon
  • Struggle
  • To Be
  • Illusory

• All estimates of savings are illusory and empty promises.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Savings
  • Illusory
  • Estimates

• Do not be proud of wealth, people, relations and friends, or youth. All these are snatched by time in the blink of an eye. Giving up this illusory world, know and attain the Supreme.

  

  Adi Shankara
  • Giving Up
  • Supreme
  • Illusory

• Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Illusory
  • Deconstruction

• I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Image
  • Temporary
  • Projection

• Everything is illusory. You cannot label something and feel that that is the beginning, middle, and end of it.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Feel
  • Label
  • Illusory

• At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise . . . that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Heart
  • Meaning
  • Paradise

• Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Joy
  • Sorrow
  • Illusory

• More than anything, I think everything about appearance is illusory. People see you, and they think they understand what you're projecting, but actually, they have their own interpretation of it, or they put a label on you.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Appearance
  • Label
  • Projecting

• For a man who loves power, competition from the gods is annoying. I have done away with that. I have proven to these illusory godsthat a man, if he has the will, can practice, without any apprenticeship, their ridiculous trade.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Practice
  • Gods
  • Trade

• The individual, no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, if only he would use it, does not have the passion to rip himself away from either the coils of Reflection or the seductive ambiguities of Reflection; nor do the surroundings and times have any events or passions, but rather provide a negative setting of a habit of reflection, which plays with some illusory project only to betray him in the end with a way out: it shows him that the most clever thing to do is nothing at all.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Passion
  • Reflection
  • Meaning