Illusion Quotes

The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing playthings, he is less duped than his neighbour by his own nature.

~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel

What Albert Einstein termed optical delusion,The Indians termed Maya or Illusion.

~ Mohit.k.misra

The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history of mankind to be rejected as mere illusion. There seems to be no reason, then, to accept the normal level of human experience as fact and reject its other levels as mystical and emotional.

~ Muhammad Iqbal

Reality is a hallucination shared by most sane men.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

To lose weight, spend time at the gym. To appear like you’ve lost weight, spend time with people who are bigger than you.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Twitter gives people an illusionary sense of leadership.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You are the stuff of which consumer profiles – American Dream: Educated Middle-Class Model – are made. When you're staying at the Plaza with your beautiful wife, doesn't it make sense to order the best Scotch that money can buy before you go to the theater in your private limousine?

~ Jay Mcinerney

A push-up bra is to a woman’s chest … what 'breathing-in' is to a man’s stomach.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Tomorrow is like 'there.' Once you get 'there,' it is called 'here.' So, technically, life is a set of Todays.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

What's not there is.

~ Cameron Conaway

Friendship was another illusion like love, though it did not reach the same mad heights. People pretended that they were friends, when the fact was they were brought together by force of circumstances.

~ R.k. Narayan

Familiarity can provide the misguided illusion of understanding. Assume nothing.

~ Truth Devour

Ah, love. That’s what the world has lost. There’s no more love, only the illusion of it.

~ Lauren Destefano

Death is merely an illusion of the departed... Just because you cannot physically see the idea of God, doesn't mean that he or she isn't there. Just because you cannot physically see someone that isn't here, doesn't mean that they aren't there.

~ Lionel Suggs

Was it just fear? the voices wonder. We were fearful in the best of times; how could we cope with the worst? So we found the tallest walls and poured ourselves behind them. We kept pouring until we were biggest and strongest, elected the greatest generals and found the most weapons, thinking all this maximalism would somehow generate happiness. But nothing so obvious could ever work.

~ Isaac Marion

He then explained his new philosophy, which followed the devastating discovery that Love and Friendship were the veriest illusions. He explained that people married because their sexual appetite had to be satisfied and there must be somebody to manage the house. There was nothing deeper than that in any man and woman relationship.

~ R.k. Narayan

Whoever thirst for money is real victim of a capital illusion.

~ Toba Beta

To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.

~ Eugene O'neill

Love is an optical illusion that makes you believe the object of your affection is the most beautiful person in the world.

~ Tom Holt

People wear masks in the light because true happiness are the agents of deception and delusion.

~ Lionel Suggs

It's hard for a masked man to hide behind a mask when he isn't wearing one.

~ Lionel Suggs

- I see the real world, Nancy. But it doesn't seem real to me.- How does it seem?- It seems like an illusion that nobody notices.

~ Stevie Mikayne

Illusions connected with religion are generally most difficult to remove.

~ John Meade Falkner

What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness.

~ Idries Shah

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

~ Georges Bernanos

No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.

~ Barton Gellman

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

~ Javan

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

~ Arthur Koestler

Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.

~ Alexander Chase

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

~ George Washington

Limits, like fear, is often an illusion.

~ Michael Jordan

Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.

~ David Icke

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.

~ George Lucas

Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.

~ Charles M. Schulz

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

~ Albert Einstein