Illusion Quotes

But the world is out there, and it understands that the illusion of knowledge and freedom is not the same as the real thing. Eventually it will fade, and there are those who will do whatever it takes to make that happen sooner rather than later.

~ Aimee Carter

Knowledge kills action action requires the veils of illusion.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Worldly knowledge (laukik gnan) is called illusion (bhranti).

~ Dada Bhagwan

To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that already you do.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

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 W. Watts

Time is but an illusion created by beings with limited perception.

~ Ken Poirot

Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.

~ Jon Kabat-Zinn

Time is, indeed, a strange and wondrous thing. It has no beginning or end, it seems. Time goes on, forward and backward, this way and that. But perspective is an illusion, for we know all things begin somewhere.

~ Sara Ella

The illusion is time itself.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

if all of life were an illusion then the instruments science would use to measure reality could not be depended upon.

~ Chuck Bridges

Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Throughout our history human beings have conducted and practiced all kinds of rituals and activities with the motivation of obtaining peace. We have fought wars in the name of achieving peace because we are under the illusion that peace is something external, something to be obtained.

~ Saunsea

What are the units of ontology really that I should be a part of a whole, but not be, in all my awareness, chiefly the whole unto itself?

~ Ashim Shanker

A well painted facade seldom scares a resident cockroach.

~ Hasse Jerner

So many people are afraid of the ending of their life on earth. Then there are others who are afraid of not being able to leave after their bodies have long failed them. There's nothing at all to be afraid of. Death is the last lesson in the school of life. It is the final stage of growth. Death is the one event that is designed to remove all of your remaining fears. Someday you will find that the things you were most afraid of, like death, were only illusions.

~ Kate Mcgahan

Rationality and calm self-determination were one of the great illusions of the universe... in the end, we were all ruled by our passions.

~ Michael R. French

Some people are magic, and others are just the illusion of it.

~ Beau Taplin

Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.

~ John Fowles

Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.

~ Judith Guest

Most of the time, we see only what we want to see, or what others tell us to see, instead of really investigate to see what is really there. We embrace illusions only because we are presented with the illusion that they are embraced by the majority. When in truth, they only become popular because they are pounded at us by the media with such an intensity and high level of repetition that its mere force disguises lies and truths. And like obedient schoolchildren, we do not question their validity and swallow everything up like medicine. Why? Because since the earliest days of our youth, we have been conditioned to accept that the direction of the herd, and authority anywhere — is always right.

~ Suzy Kassem

The internet has become a carefully controlled and heavily monitored illusion. It has turned into both a circus and battleground. Popularity is rigged and can be bought. Censorship is in full effect. Popular opinion is fabricated, and the perception of a viewpoint's popularity is typically orchestrated and manipulated by legions of paid trolls. If you want to know the truth about somebody's true popularity and influence, look to the streets. If you want to know if a person is really guilty or innocent, study the facts yourself. Never judge anybody based on what you see or read on the internet. Information can easily be manipulated by the push of a few buttons.

~ Suzy Kassem

Yet 'Reality' is just whatever illusion we believe in

~ Fola

The life is not limited to the external reality but the external life, has been formed for the human’s experience. The time you feel you are done with all the experiences of the external life, you have a choice to move inward.

~ Roshan Sharma

Dreams, just dreams, it's all illusion

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Not everyone can decode a dream! Dreamers are those abled minds that can read the intent of the dream in terms of energy, frequency & vibration...!

~ Vishwanath S J

The illusion of free will, of freedom, is a useful tool you know. Let people think they are free and present them with a danger to their so-called freedom, a fear. It’s amazing how much you can get them to deal with just as long as you tell them they’re still free.

~ Jordon Greene

Censorship is alive and well in America.

~ Suzy Kassem

Democracy is an illusion in which we all believe.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

First, create your ego. Then destroy it. This is all of life.

~ Kamand Kojouri

For the first time in his life, Mont Blanc for a moment looked to him what it was - a chaos of anarchic and purposeless forces - and he needed days of repose to see it clothe itself again with the illusions of his senses, the white purity of its snows, the splendor of its light, and the infinity of its heavenly peace. Nature was kind; Lake Geneva was beautiful beyond itself, and the Alps put on charms real as terrors.

~ Henry Adams

With true beauty, there is no illusion.

~ James Philip Head

Possibly the most debilitating deception of all is to create a god of my own making, fool myself into believing that this limp god of mine is the true God, and then construct the entirety of my life on this flamboyantly fictional character. Possibly the most devastating realization of all is when the real God shows up, and in the showing up all of this come crashing down.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The sense of a soul and afterlife is an intuitive illusion.

~ Christopher Zzenn Loren

Natural Self is the Soul and illusion is the relative self [prakruti].

~ Dada Bhagwa

The illusion, as ego suggests, is that it's about time - mechanical mind; it is not. It is, however, all about conscious space - something [the] soul has always known.

~ T.f. Hodge

In a world of illusion, art is the soul shining through with the light of infinite potential.

~ Ka Chinery

Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . .

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Magic is the stunning art of surprising your audience, so that nothing else surprises them.

~ Amit Kalantri

I am in favour of illusion, not alienation... Drama must create a factitious spell-binding present moment and imprison the spectator in it. The theatre apes the profound truth that we are extended beings who yet can only exist in the present.

~ Iris Murdoch

In musical performances one can sense that the person on stage is having a good time even if they're singing a song about breaking up or being in a bad way. For an actor this would be anathema, it would destroy the illusion, but with singing one can have it both ways. As a singer, you can be transparent and reveal yourself on stage, in that moment, and at the same time be the person whose story is being told in the song. Not too many kinds of performance allow that.

~ David Byrne