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Illusion Quotes

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It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.
Antonin Scalia

It is challenging to sustain the delusion that we are deciphering a Constitution, rather than originating one.
Authors on Illusion Quotes: Friedrich Nietzsche Ralph Waldo Emerson Frederick Lenz Mehmet Murat Ildan Elbert Hubbard Rajneesh Sigmund Freud Meher Baba Lauren DeStefano Eckhart Tolle Libba Bray Bob Dylan Albert Einstein Deepak Chopra Mary Baker Eddy Thomas Merton Mason Cooley Alan Watts Erich Fromm Daniel Dennett Rumi John Ortberg Wallace Stevens Friedrich August von Hayek Philibert Joseph Roux Daniel J. Boorstin Emile M. Cioran Virginia Woolf Nelson Mandela Henri Frederic Amiel Daniel Kahneman John Berger David Icke
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Love thy neighbor as thyself because you are your neighbor. It is illusion that makes you think that your neighbor is someone other than yourself.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Nurture yourself as you would another, for ultimately everyone is connected and indistinguishable.
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The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.
Gustave Le Bon

The majority have never yearned for accuracy. Whoever can furnish them with fantasies is effortlessly their ruler; whoever endeavors to demolish their fantasies is invariably their casualty.
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The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.
Antonio Gramsci

The trial of contemporaneity is to exist without fantasies and without succumbing to disenchantment.
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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
Alexander Pushkin

'Preferable to be uplifted by fantasies than inundated with facts.'
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I thought poetry could change everything, could change history and could humanize, and I think that the illusion is very necessary to push poets to be involved and to believe, but now I think that poetry changes only the poet.
Mahmoud Darwish

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Change is an illusion.
Parmenides

Metamorphosis is an illusion.
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You can't live without illusions, even if you must fight for them.
Marlene Dietrich

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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
W. Somerset Maugham

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

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Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.
Jon Kabat-Zinn

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There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion.
Aleister Crowley

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A dolphin's smile is the greatest deception. It creates the illusion that they're always happy.
Ric O'Barry

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There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.
Daniel Dennett

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Pressure is an illusion, but I like that illusion of pressure.
Conor McGregor

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Realizing that nothing can last, that all is as dreamlike illusion.
Tilopa

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Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.
Brad Bird

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If you see the illusion you are enlightened, but if you think that you are enlightened you are in the illusion!
H. W. L. Poonja

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As long as we prioritize material truths over spiritual truths we will live in tyranny because we are living an illusion
Russell Brand

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Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
Auguste Comte

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The greatest illusion is that mankind has limitations.
Robert Monroe

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Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Feel not as though it is a sphere we live on. Rather, an infinite plane which has the illusion of leading yourself back to the point of origin.
Reggie Watts

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Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life
Chuck Jones

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Illusion is no longer possible, because the real is no longer possible.
Jean Baudrillard

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We all need illusions. That's why we love movies.
Monica Bellucci

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When you are free from delusion, you can enjoy illusion. Enjoy the dream but enjoy the dream being free.
Mooji

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Originality is merely an illusion.
M. C. Escher

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The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.
Daniel Kahneman

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Every perception of color is an illusion, we do not see colors as they really are. In our perception they alter one another.
Josef Albers

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It is necessary to expose the false propaganda of the imperialists and thoroughly dispel the illusion that the imperialists will give up their positions in the colonies and dependent countries with good will.
Kim Il-sung

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Everything is just electricity and magnetism; everything is only an illusion. The reality is in the spiritual plane.
Lobsang Rampa

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I’ve learned that fear is simply an illusion based on past experiences that we project into the present and onto the future.
Gabrielle Bernstein

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More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.
Thomas Boswell

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O my companion, Worldly comfort is an illusion, As soon you get it, it goes.
Meera

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Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.
Timothy Zahn

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Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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We are eternal. All this pain is an illusion.
Maynard James Keenan

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Everything is an illusion.
Mata Hari

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Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.
Marina Abramovic

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Magic lives in curves, not angles.
Mason Cooley

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There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.
Voltaire

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I see the world as an illusion, and we shouldn't take ourselves so seriously
Andy Kaufman

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Illusions only control you when you think they are real.
David Icke

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Change is eminent, control is an illusion, but dreams are eternal. Believe in your dreams!
Greg Smith

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We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane.
Tariq Ali

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The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion.
Giacomo Leopardi

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An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality.
Erich Fromm