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I believe that the fundamental alternative for man is the choice between "life" and "death"; between creativity and destructive violence; between reality and illusions; between objectivity and intolerance; between brotherhood-independence and dominance-submission. -- Erich Fromm
Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality. -- Herman Wouk
There is the illusion of the world and the reality of the Torah. -- Meir Kahane
I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion. -- Mike Mills
We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality. -- Judy Garland
Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world. -- Steven Pinker
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
There are Eastern religions that deny the reality of pain and suffering. They just try to wipe it away by saying it's all an illusion. -- Lee Strobel
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
I like the idea that we build up these walls or rules or laws to maintain our reality, and when they fall away, you're left with a whole bunch of illusions. -- Sarah McLachlan
Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow. -- Luigi Pirandello
I like the idea that we build up these walls or rules or laws to maintain our reality, and when they fall away, you're left with a whole bunch of illusions. Smoke and mirrors. -- Sarah McLachlan
It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection. -- Edward Sapir
I love the idea I can go off with a single camera and a few rolls of film unencumbered... I was not interested in the illusion of reality, I wanted to get close to what was happening. -- Eve Arnold
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
There is an interesting scientific dispute about realism and optimism. Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out. -- Martin Seligman
I love Jonathan Adler but more importantly I love throws. To clarify, a throw is not to be confused with a blanket. A blanket is to be slept under, a throw is to accent a chair or sofa and give the illusion that in some scenario someone might rest underneath it. In reality, this scenario does not exist and I never want it to. -- Max Greenfield
Reason is the illusion of reality -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality. -- Erich Fromm
The illusion is reality. The only contradiction is the observer. -- Lionel Suggs
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -- Albert Einstein
Reality is an illusion created by a lack of alcohol. -- N. F. Simpson
Reality is an illusion that occurs due to the lack of alcohol. -- W. C. Fields
An illusion can never go faster than the speed limit of reality. -- Akiane Kramarik
For those in love with an illusion often refuse to accept reality -- Sanal Edamaruku
Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality. -- Nicolas Chamfort
The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion -- Donna J. Haraway
Consciousness is the ultimate Reality; compared with it, all else is illusion. -- Harold Percival
Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion. -- David I. Rozenberg
We insist that society should conform to our own subjective illusion of reality. -- Robert Anthony
Don't take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion. -- Wole Soyinka
When we bury the illusion of perfection, we uncover the reality of daily progress. -- Terry Crouson
Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion. -- Judith Guest
Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached. -- Simone Weil
Science is a contemplative possession of reality through exclusion of all illusion, error and ignorance. -- Georges Canguilhem
The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I am the Mindfreak, there's no Reality! Just this World of Illusion that keeps on haunting me... -- Criss Angel
The boundary between ourselves and other people and between ourselves and Nature, is illusion. Oneness is reality. -- Charlene Spretnak
Everything is just electricity and magnetism; everything is only an illusion. The reality is in the spiritual plane. -- Lobsang Rampa
I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy -- Parker J. Palmer
I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy. -- Parker Palmer
Sometimes, reality is the illusion, and the truth only visible where our eyes can't see."- Lady Lalaigne" -- Jeanine Henning
Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith. -- Harry Allen Overstreet
Ugliness is an illusion, gentlemen. Like beauty. Like color. All depends on the light. The only reality is action. -- Karen Traviss
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. -- Iris Murdoch
What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion. -- Max Jacob
And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even. -- Judith Guest
I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality. -- Jean Cocteau
Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion. -- Theodor Adorno
The inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race. -- Salman Rushdie
Juggling is an illusion. ... In reality, the balls are being independently caught and thrown in rapid succession. ... It is actually task switching. -- Gary W. Keller
In the society of illusion, reality must manifest itself. The story songs of Joel Rafael are that manifestation... the essence of minstrel. -- John Trudell
Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness,--these are the threads on the loom of time, these are the lords of life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality. -- Ruth Bernhard
Far superior to the pleasures and rewards of the illusion that is Earthly life are the pleasure and rewards of the Reality. -- Ian Gardner
All is illusion, although as long as there's an illusion that the kids need to be fed, all might as well be reality. -- Robert Breault
Oh my God. Lift me up out of this illusion, Lord. Heal my perception that I might know only reality and only you. -- Bill Hicks
That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality. -- H. P. Lovecraft
Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world. -- Arnold Newman
There are other relations besides reality, which the mind is capable of grasping and which also are primary, like chance, illusion, the fantastic, the dream. -- Louis Aragon
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
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
One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams. -- Salvador Dali
As soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency. -- Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow. -- Luigi Pirandello
The art of a magician is not found in the simple deception, but in what surrounds it, the construction of a reality which supports the illusion. -- Jim Steinmeyer
If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality. -- Eckhart Tolle
When I was in high school, we were all laboring under the illusion, or maybe it was a reality, that everyone in our school was a virgin. -- James Woods
A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion. -- Alan Watts
The letting go is an energetic process that moves us in a different flow of reality beyond the illusion and into more of a free-flowing liberation space. -- Christine McCormick Day
If only we can give them faith that mountains can be moved, they will accept the illusion that mountains are moveable, and thus an illusion may become reality. -- Benito Mussolini
Gone is the blinding glow in his hands - gone, too, is the illusion of purity and beauty! In it's place all that remains is mind-numbing, spine-chilling reality! -- Dave Sim
Through being "right", you feel superior and through feeling superior you strengthen your sense of self. In reality, of course, you are only strengthening the illusion of ego. -- Eckhart Tolle
Time is an illusion, only the keepers of the illusion are real, and the reality they have spun, keeps us, until we set upon the path of the dream. -- Tom Althouse
Like a lot of writers, I just got sick to death of conventional fiction. I absolutely couldn't stand the illusion of reality and plot. I just couldn't stomach it. -- Jane Alison
One of my principal concerns is the contradiction between appearance and reality - illusion and reality. I try to set up an expectation of sorts and then contradict it. -- Stuart Pearson Wright

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