Illusion Quotes
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Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while making it easier for them to part with them.
Vaclav Havel
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Don't take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
Wole Soyinka
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Civilisation is hooped together, brought
Under a rule, under the semblance of peace
By manifold illusion.
William Butler Yeats
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We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.
Benjamin Cardozo
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Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see - not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness.
Lewis H. Lapham
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To a father who loves his children victor has no charms. When the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I felt the first soft glow of intoxication that makes the blood warmer and spreads an illusion of adventure over uncertainty.
Erich Maria Remarque
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One of the greatest difficulties encountered in bringing about favorable change is this almost inescapable illusion that there is a perduring, unique, simple existent self, which is in some strange fashion, the patient's, or the subject person's, private property.
Harry Stack Sullivan
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Truth is only an illusion we have forgotten is an illusion.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. The rude shocks and uncomfortably constraining influences of life disappear among graceful women and poetical men; they are the most deceptive beings in creation; distrust and doubt cannot stand before them; they create what they imagine; if they do not lie to others, they do to their own hearts; for illusion is their element, fiction their vocation, and pleasures in appearance their happiness. Beware of grace in woman, and poetry in man -- weapons the more dangerous because the least dreaded!
Marquis De Custine
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This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality.
Embrace this moment, remember: we are eternal
all this pain is an illusion.
James Herbert Keenan
Children of the Anachronistic Dynasty
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You cannot escape one infinite, I told myself, by fleeing to another. You cannot escape the revelation of the identical by taking refuge in the illusion of the multiple.
Umberto Eco
