Illusion Quotes
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Every heart is the other heart. Every soul is the other soul. Every face is the other face. The individual is the one illusion.
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Everything is an illusion.
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We have the illusion of freedom only because so few ever try to exercise it. Try it sometime. Try to save your home from the highway crowd, or to work a trade without the approval of the goons, or to open a little business without a permit, or to grow a crop without a quota, or to educate your child the way you want to, or to not have a child. We all have the freedom of a balloon floating in a pin factory.
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Nothing must be left to chance in a magical performance. Everything conducive to enhancing the mystery of the illusions must be arranged with painstaking care and thought.
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If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
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Suffering is an illusion.
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On some level we trade passion for security, that's trading one illusion for another. It's a matter of degree. We can't live in constant fear, but we can't live without any. The fear of loss is essential to love.
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Religious illusion must bow to scientific truth. It is in total error about the nature of the true world. Only science is not an illusion.
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Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of ones own resources.
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A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.
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You see, in recent history, the Democrat party has created the illusion that their agenda and their policies are what's best for black people.
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Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and ferocious pirates... Such, however, is the illusion of antiquity and wealth, that decent and dignified men now existing, boast their descent from these filthy thieves, who showed a far juster conviction of their own merits, by assuming for their types the swine, goat, jackal, leopard, wolf, and snake, which they severally resembled.
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Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.
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Was not the arbitrary distinction between illusion and reality the ultimate illusion itself?
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When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame, abandoned by a fantasy. …People fancy they are enjoying themselves, but they are really tearing out their wings for the sake of an illusion.
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The illusion of choice is the greatest magic trick ever performed.
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The fresh start is always an illusion but a necessary one.
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Even the illusion of love was preferable to the utter lack of it.
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The Art Magicke has rules. It means I have to teach you all my tricks. All the substitutions, the replications, the illusions. How to read minds and palms and leaves. How to disappear and reappear. "How to saw people in half?" "That too." "Nice.
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A thing can only live through a pious illusion.
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The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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Writing to you like this makes me feel that you are still alive. It’s an illusion I’ve noticed before—words on a page are like oxygen to a petrol engine, firing up ghosts. It lasts only while the words are in your head. After you put down the paper or the pen, the pistons fall lifeless again.
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The fear of death is the fear of the end of an illusion; so long as the illusion persists so long will the fear remain.
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There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
