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Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within. -- Arthur Erickson
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -- Albert Einstein
Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality. -- Herman Wouk
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. -- George Bernard Shaw
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
Illusion never changed into something real. -- Natalie Imbruglia
Illusion is the mantle of the Real -- Frederick Franck
Illusion is the first of all pleasures. -- Oscar Wilde
Illusion is brief, but repentance is long. -- Friedrich Schiller
Emotion arise from Desire, hence an Illusion. -- Buddha
I Have No Illusion These Will Come Easy". -- Behnam Rajabpoor
Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel. -- Andre Maurois
Illusion I will be, for I've never been a sinner. -- David Bowie
Illusion is sometimes all that keeps us sane." - Anita -- Laurell K. Hamilton
Illusion and wisdom combined are the charm of life and art. -- Joseph Joubert
God made the Illusion look Real and the Real an Illusion ! -- Rumi
We are beings only in the extent of Our Life's Illusion. -- Sorin Cerin
Illusion is no longer possible, because the real is no longer possible. -- Jean Baudrillard
Vision without an Action is Illusion. Action without a Vision is Confusion. -- Sunny John
Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. -- Minna Antrim
There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater. -- Tony Kushner
Corporate principles and military principles are basically the same. Insulation. Illusion. Hype. Activity. -- Tarun J. Tejpal
Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other. -- Emile M. Cioran
If I had only one film in the world to save, it would be 'Grand Illusion.' -- Orson Welles
Romantic Love is only an Illusion. A story one makes up in One's Mind about Another Person. -- Virginia Woolf
I am the Mindfreak, there's no Reality! Just this World of Illusion that keeps on haunting me... -- Criss Angel
It is no wonder if Art frequently prefers Illusion to Truth: for Illusion is her servant, but Truth her mistress. -- Richard B. Garnett
'Grand Illusion' and 'Rules of the Game' are routinely included on lists of the greatest films, and deserve to be. -- Roger Ebert
There is no fire like passion. There are no chains like hate. Illusion is a net, Desire is a rushing river. -- Gautama Buddha
Tradition is the illusion of permanance. -- Woody Allen
Limits, like fear, is often an illusion. -- Michael Jordan
Everything's fine today, that is our illusion. -- Voltaire
I sell mirrors in the city of the blind. -- Kabir
Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion. -- David Icke
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. -- Miguel de Unamuno
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness. -- Leo Tolstoy
Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion. -- Michael Jordan
Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion. -- Javan
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. -- Albert Einstein
I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake. -- Lewis Black
When it appears that there is no choice, some form of illusion is operating. -- Deepak Chopra
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. -- Charles Addams
The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes. -- Arthur Miller
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. -- Saul Bellow
I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy. -- Parker Palmer
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. -- Iris Murdoch
Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world. -- Steven Pinker
One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind. -- Ella Maillart
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth. -- Publilius Syrus
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. -- Alan Watts
Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality. -- Jacque Fresco
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone. -- Orson Welles
Illusions... are simple facts, but they have been created by the mind, by the spirit, and they are one of the justifications of the new spatial configuration. -- Georges Braque
It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved. -- W. Somerset Maugham
A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true. -- Socrates
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience and Infinite love is the only truth; everything else is an illusion. -- Pema Chodron
Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils. -- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Mindfulness is a quality that's always there. It's an illusion that there's a meditation and post-meditation period, which I always find amusing, because you're either mindful or you're not. -- Richard Gere
Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. -- Joseph Conrad
People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening. -- David Brinkley
I believe there should be no arbitrary date set for withdrawal and yet no permanent, unending deployment. No cut and run, yet measured progress in helping a people who want to be free without an illusion of overnight success. -- Rick Renzi
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces. -- Sigmund Freud
I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there. -- David Knopfler
The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen, he's become a different person. -- Edith Head
European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The experience changed the way people referred to the glamour of battle; they treated it no longer as a positive quality but as a dangerous illusion. -- Virginia Postrel
The willingness to not bypass illusion is very important. We come to nirvana by way of samsara. We come to see the true nature of things by seeing through the illusory nature of things. We don't come to nirvana by avoiding samsara. We don't come to clarity by avoiding confusion. -- Adyashanti
In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their present, under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their departure. -- King Hussein I
I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner. -- Steve Martin
When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you? The two are so, so different. One is an infinite consciousness capable of being and creating whatever it chooses, the other is an illusion imprisoned by its own perceived and programmed limitations. -- David Icke
Everything is an illusion. -- Mata Hari
Control is an illusion ... -- Melody Beattie
Suffering is an illusion. -- Gautama Buddha
Saturday is an illusion. -- Nelson Rodrigues
Change is an illusion. -- Parmenides
Time is an illusion. -- Albert Einstein
Hope is not an illusion. -- Cassandra Clare
Disillusion is the last illusion. -- Wallace Stevens
Originality is merely an illusion. -- M. C. Escher
Time is an illusion-to orators. -- Elbert Hubbard
Reason is the illusion of reality -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
The most dangerous thing is illusion. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All is but illusion and disaster. -- Voltaire
Action is thought tempered by illusion. -- Elbert Hubbard
A woman should be an illusion -- Ian Fleming
Routine feeds the illusion of safety... -- Christopher Moore
In antihistory, time is an illusion. -- Jill Lepore
An idyllic childhood is probably illusion. -- Martha Grimes
Life is a loom, weaving illusion. -- Vachel Lindsay
Anarchy is merely the illusion of liberty. -- Stephan Attia
Everything is illusion. Even that last sentence. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
A woman's charm is fifty percent illusion. -- Tennessee Williams
Life without illusion is a ghostly affair. -- Virginia Woolf
The only freedom is freedom from illusion... -- Stefan Molyneux
Disappointment results from the removal of illusion. -- Chogyam Trungpa
An illusion dissipated is an experience gained. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. -- Douglas Adams
There is no illusion great than fear. -- Laozi
In many ways, constancy is an illusion. -- Mary Catherine Bateson
Rocks are space, and space is illusion. -- Jack Kerouac
Despair is the only cure for illusion. -- Alexander Lowen
Death is the greatest illusion of all. -- Rajneesh
Even mud gives the illusion of depth. -- Marshall McLuhan
The illusion is we are only physical. -- Vanna Bonta
Black illusion is all I ever see. -- Ozzy Osbourne
The art of illusion is grace itself. -- Steven Erikson
One illusion is as good as another. -- Zelda Fitzgerald
Choice is illusion, same as happiness and freedom. -- Carolyn Crane
The material world may be nothing but illusion... -- Anodea Judith
An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality. -- Erich Fromm
Let the American infidels bask in their illusion. -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
The greatest illusion is that mankind has limitations. -- Robert Monroe
Oh, how powerfully the magnet of illusion attracts. -- Karl Gutzkow
Sanity is an illusion caused by alcohol deficiency. -- N. F. Simpson
Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation. -- C. S. Lewis
Consciousness is an illusion constructed by the memes. -- Susan Blackmore
Confidence is the illusion born of accidental success. -- Thomas a Kempis
Drop your identification with the illusion of separateness. -- Ram Dass

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