Illusions Quotes
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I do not wish to grow old, to outlive my illusions. Only a short respite from cares and sorrow, a brief time of flowers, and music, and love, and laughter, and ecstatic tears.
Anne Reeve Aldrich -
If I live by illusions, you live by excuses.
Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
The commonsense rules of the "real world" are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions.
Tim Ferriss -
Life never ceases. Life is an overflowing source, and death is only an obscure effect of illusions.
Andre Luiz Moreira -
I knew that most people never see this reality because they attach to the material aspect of the world. Illusions of self and other fill their vision. I also realized there are those with little dust limiting their vision.
Gautama Buddha -
For what we suppose to be our love or our jealousy is never a single, continuous and indivisible passion. It is composed of an infinity of successive loves, of different jealousies, each of which is ephemeral, although by their uninterrupted multiplicity they give us the impression of continuity, the illusion of unity.
Marcel Proust -
Doubt frees us from illusions of having captured God in a creed; it calls into question every religious symbol.
Ian Barbour
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I have never had illusions about the value of my individual contribution! I realized early that what a man or a woman does is built on what those who have gone before have done, that its real value depends on making the matter in hand a little clearer, a little sounder for those who come after. Nobody begins or ends anything. Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain. One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
Ida Tarbell -
Most fears are just illusions.
Gary Null -
The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.
Victor Hugo -
Way up high in the Shenandoah Mountains where I live, it is difficult to maintain illusions about the natural world. It is dying.
Wil S. Hylton -
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
Simone Weil -
You will not find in semantics any remedy for decayed teeth or illusions of grandeur or class conflict.
Alfred Tarski
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Time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake.
Lord Byron -
Rationalism belongs to the cool observer. But because of the stupidity of the average person, they follow not reason, but faith. This naïve faith, requires necessary illusions and emotionally potent oversimplifications, which are provided by the myth maker to keep the ordinary person on course.
Reinhold Niebuhr -
“Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.”
Charles Addams -
The principal task of friendship is to foster one`s friends` illusions.
Arthur Schnitzler -
There's no point in clinging to illusions.
Eva Heller -
It is sweet to die young! It is sweet to render to God a life still full of illusions!
Andre Chenier
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It's fear of the unknown. The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that-it's all illusion. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing. Everything is unknown-then you're ahead of the game. That's what it is. Right?
John Lennon The Beatles -
Most of us carry into marriage not only our childlike illusions, but we bring to it as well the demand that it has to be wonderful, because it's supposed to be.
Eda LeShan -
Divine reality is not way up in the sky somewhere; it is readily available in the encounters of everyday life, which make hash of my illusions that I can control the ways God comes to me.
Barbara Brown Taylor -
Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering.
Alfred de Musset