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Illusions Quotes (page 21)

People who do affirmations will have the sensation thatthey are causing the environment to conform to their will. This is an immensely enjoyable feeling because the illusionof control is one of the best illusions you can have. Scott Adams
Whatever view one takes of the outcome being affected by morale, it seems certain that the realm of illusion must be escaped before anything else. Christopher Hitchens
The morality thatgoes with this understanding is, above all, the frank recognition of yourdependence upon enemies, underlings, out-groups, and, indeed, upon allother forms of life whatsoever. Involved as you may be in the conflictsand competitive games of practical life, you will never again be able toindulge in the illusion that the "offensive other" is all in the wrong, andcould or should be wiped out. Alan Watts
Because of its increasing triviality, everyday life has gradually become our central preoccupation. No illusion, sacred or deconsecrated, collective or individual, can hide the poverty of our daily actions any longer. The enrichment of life calls inexorably for the analysis of the new forms taken by poverty, and the perfection of the old weapons of refusal. Raoul Vaneigem
But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
youth is given up to illusions. It seems to be a provision of Nature; a decoy to secure mothers for the race. And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost. Kate Chopin
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "Beauty is a question of optics. All sight is illusion."
Beauty is a question of optics. All sight is illusion. Joyce Carol Oates
They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions. (v) Elie Wiesel
...I know all about myself now, I know. You've told me so often. You haven't left me one rag of illusion to clothe myself in. Jean Rhys
Voltaire quote: "One day everything will be well, that is our hope...."
One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion Voltaire
These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly. Fashion is about dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women. Karl Lagerfeld
Stephen Hawking quote: "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the..."
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. Stephen Hawking
Ray Bradbury quote: "Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs..."
Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending. Ray Bradbury
Women are strange little beasts,' he said to Dr. Coutras. 'You can treat them like dogs, you can beat them till your arm aches, and still they love you.' He shrugged his shoulders. 'Of course, it is one of the most absurd illusions of Christianity that they have souls. W. Somerset Maugham
The past is a distant, receding coastline, and we are all in the same boat. Along the stern rail there is a line of telescopes; each brings the shore into focus at a given distance. If the boat is becalmed, one of the telescopes will be in continual use; it will seem to tell the whole, the unchanging truth. But this is an illusion; and as the boat sets off again, we return to our normal activity: scurrying from one telescope to another, seeing the sharpness fade in one, waiting for the blur... Julian Barnes

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