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Illusions Quotes (page 24)

Ayn Rand quote: "The causes of illusions are not pretty to discover. They're..."
The causes of illusions are not pretty to discover. They're either vicious or tragic. Ayn Rand
Angela Carter quote: "Is not this world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody."
Is not this world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody. Angela Carter
I like the stars. It’s the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they’re always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend… I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and Gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don’t last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. But I can pretend. Neil Gaiman
It is the Land of Truth (enchanted name!), surrounded by a wide and stormy ocean, the true home of illusion, where many a fog bank and ice, that soon melts away, tempt us to believe in new lands, while constantly deceiving the adventurous mariner with vain hopes, and involving him in adventures which he can never leave, yet never bring to an end. Immanuel Kant
And I didn't know I loved her till I'd dreamt of her. I didn't know it was the real thing until an illusion had signalled it. Graham Swift
Where we encounter the "nave" in art, we should recognize the highest effect of Apollinian culture--which always must first overthrow an empire of Titans and slay monsters, and which must have triumphed over an abysmal and terrifying view of the world and the keenest susceptibility to suffering through recourse to the most forceful and pleasurable illusions. Friedrich Nietzsche
Ernest Hemingway quote: "THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIOI am a poor idealist. I am a..."
THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIOI am a poor idealist. I am a victim of illusions. He laughed. Ernest Hemingway
And that is enough to raise your thoughts to what may happen when the redeemed soul, beyond all hope and nearly beyond belief, learns at last that she has pleased Him whom she was created to please. There will be no room for vanity then. She will be free from the miserable illusion that it is her doing. With no taint of what we should now call self-approval she will most innocently rejoice in the thing that God has made her to be, and the moment which heals her old inferiority complex forever... C. S. Lewis
The novels that attract me most... are those that create an illusion of transperancy around a knot of human relationships as obscure, cruel and perverse as possible. Italo Calvino
Woody Allen quote: "Tradition is the illusion of permanence."
Tradition is the illusion of permanence. Woody Allen
Ram Dass quote: "We're here to awaken from the illusion of separateness"
We're here to awaken from the illusion of separateness Ram Dass
What is called family pride is often founded on the illusion of self-love. A man wishes to perpetuate and immortalize himself. Alexis de Tocqueville
I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That's an illusion, of course. When you walk through a crowd of strangers it's next door to impossible not to imagine that they're all waxworks, but probably they're thinking just the same about you. George Orwell
The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. John Berger
I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain. Rene Descartes

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