Illusion Quotes

For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
Donald Williams

As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be
Saul Alinsky

A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.
Yasutani Roshi

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years.
Sheila Ballantyne

How strange when an illusion dies, it's as though you've lost a child.

A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages

Rob the average man of his life-illusion and you rob him also of his happiness

Reality i merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.

What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion

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

An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time

The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.
Lewis H Lapham

Even as recently as 1969, I still had the illusion, you see, that atomic energy could be a safe alternative to damming all our rivers for power.
David Brower







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