Illusion Quotes
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Every human being relies on and is bounded by his knowledge and experience to live. This is what we call “reality”. However, knowledge and experience are ambiguous, thus reality can become illusion. Is it not possible to think that, all human beings are living in their assumptions?
Masashi Kishimoto
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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?
Virginia Woolf
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And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.
Judith Guest
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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.
J Allard
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Most magic is a trick, an illusion. But [when The Beatles played the Ed Sullivan Show], this was real. Man oh man, was it real.
Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.
Mike Mills
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We enjoy this illusion of continuity and we call it memory. Which explains, perhaps, why our worst fear isn't the end of life, but the end of memories
Tom Rachman
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What is actually happening is often less important than what appears to be happening.
William V. Shannon
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The boundary between ourselves and other people and between ourselves and Nature, is illusion. Oneness is reality.
Charlene Spretnak
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Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a personal contact between embryonic, incomplete persons (ourselves) and the utterly concrete Person.
C. S. Lewis
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In quitting this strange world he has once again preceded me by a little. That doesn't mean anything. For those of us who believe in physics, this separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however tenacious.
Albert Einstein
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Sin creates the illusion of freedom. In the end it fools us into seeking freedom from God rather than finding freedom in God.
Erwin McManus
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If the theme is simple, you can include a hundred details that create the illusion of actuality better.
Satyajit Ray
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Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?
Rumi
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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.
John Gardner
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To me, the art of movies is to take a two-dimensional image and give the illusion of depth.
William Friedkin
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I work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place.
Pablo Picasso
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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.
Albert Einstein
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There is something within me that might be illusion as it is often case with young delighted people, but if I would be fortunate to achieve some of my ideals, it would be on the behalf of the whole of humanity. If those hopes would become fulfilled, the most exciting thought would be that it is a deed of a Serb.
Nikola Tesla
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My illusion is to have something to transmit. If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it.
Antoni Tapies
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When self-important people and powerful institutions are governed by illusion, history has a way of biting back.
William Greider
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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.
Elizabeth Goudge
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There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater.
Tony Kushner
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Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas