Illusions Quotes
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My idea of magic doesn't have much to do with stage tricks and illusions. The whole world abounds in magic.
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The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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I have no illusions about my looks. I think my face is funny.
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Truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors that have become worn-out and deprived of their sensuous force, coins that have lost their imprint and are now no longer seen as coins but as metal.
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The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.
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Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
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My heart is tuned to sorrow, and the strings Vibrate most readily to minor chords, Searching and sad; my mind is stuffed with words Which voice the passion and the ache of things: Illusions beating with their baffled wings Against the walls of circumstance.
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Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification, translation and decoration […]; truths are illusions of which we have forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors which have become worn by frequent use and have lost all sensuous vigour […]. Yet we still do not know where the drive to truth comes from, for so far we have only heard about the obligation to be truthful which society imposes in order to exist" from, "On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense".
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Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm.
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I invite you, wholeheartedly, to read books that remind you of your highest self and emancipate you from mental slavery or false beliefs and illusions. The more you invest in attracting books that resonate with the frequency of your true self, the more light you will bring to the world.
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These [religious ideas] are given out as teachings, are not precipitates of experience or end-results of thinking: they are illusions, fullfilments of the oldest, strongest and most urgent wishes of mankind.
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You can watch actors create their illusions, but if you don't see where they get the pigeons from, you don't really know how they're doing it.
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I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.
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The Soviet State does not need either illusions or camouflage. It can claim only that world authority which is confirmed by the facts.
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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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Hope cherishes no illusions, nor does it yield to cynicism.
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Long periods of peace and quiet favor certain optical illusions. Among them is the assumption that the invulnerability of the home is founded upon the constitution and safeguarded by it. In reality, it rests upon the father of the family who, accompanied by his sons, appears with the ax on the threshold of his dwelling.
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The trouble with illusions is that you aren't aware you have any until they are taken away from you.
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The fact that man produces a concept "I" besides the totality of his mental and emotional experiences or perceptions does not prove that there must be any specific existence behind such a concept. We are succumbing to illusions produced by our self-created language, without reaching a better understanding of anything. Most of so-called philosophy is due to this kind of fallacy.
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Everybody felt his superiority, but nobody felt oppressed by it. Though he had no illusions about people and human affairs, he was full of kindness toward everybody and everything. Never did he give the impression of domineering, always of serving and helping. He was extremely conscientious, without allowing anything to assume undue importance; a subtle humor guarded him, which was reflected in his eyes and in his smile.
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When you empty yourself of the illusions of who and what you think you are, there is less to lose than you had feared.
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Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead.
