Illusion Quotes
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Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?
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I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.
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If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the earth, were gifted with self-consciousness, it would feel thoroughly convinced that it was traveling its way of its own accord on the strength of a resolution taken once and for all. So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will.
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If the theme is simple, you can include a hundred details that create the illusion of actuality better.
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There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater.
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We're now at that point where the graphics are good enough to preserve the illusion and make you feel more immersed in the environment.
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There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
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Isaac's humility did not discriminate between man and man and scarcely between man and watch. In his thought men were much like their watches. The passage of time was marked as clearly upon a man's face as upon that of his watch and the marvelous mechanism of his body could be as cruelly disturbed by evil hazards. The outer case varied, gunmetal or gold, carter's corduroy or bishop's broadcloth, but the tick of the pulse was the same, the beating of life that gave such a heartbreaking illusion of eternity.
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When self-important people and powerful institutions are governed by illusion, history has a way of biting back.
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To me, the art of movies is to take a two-dimensional image and give the illusion of depth.
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Do you believe we are masters of ourselves, or merely dance like puppets on strings having the illusion of independence?
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No one thinks Las Vegas is real; it is illusion, but visitors willingly suspend disbelief and pretend.
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It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity.
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What is actually happening is often less important than what appears to be happening.
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I work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place.
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But the world is out there, and it understands that the illusion of knowledge and freedom is not the same as the real thing. Eventually it will fade, and there are those who will do whatever it takes to make that happen sooner rather than later.
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If you hold on to the handle, it's easier to maintain the illusion of control. But it's more fun if you just let the wind carry you.
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It's an illusion, control," Naomi said. "You ought to understand that by now, young Claire. We are never in control of our destinies, even the strongest of us. All we can hope to do is not be too badly damaged by events.
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That is what the blueprint for this time is about. We're leaving behind the limitations and the illusion of the struggle. We're moving much more into having a very different experience now on the Earth plane with our sacredness.
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Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
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Death is nothing, nor life either, for that matter. To die, to sleep, to pass into nothingness, what does it matter? Everything is an illusion.
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The world, life and human beings are only an illusion, a phantom, a dream image.
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If you see the illusion you are enlightened, but if you think that you are enlightened you are in the illusion!
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Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.
