Illusion Quotations | Page 2

To love is to recognize yourself in another. The others "otherness" then stands revealed as an illusion pertaining to the purely human realm, the realm of form.

Time isn't precious at all, because it is an illusion.

Time is just an illusion. What you need is to live this very moment. That is all that matters.

In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.

But, as Einstein once said, “For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent.”5

Simply naming objectives isn't sufficient for a vision. If I say that I'm going to build a large palace, but I don't have any money to do so, then that is not a vision - it's an illusion.

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

We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.

All things are accomplished by the meditative act of releasing illusions and simply becoming.

This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.

Life has no meaning the moment you loose the illusion of being eternal.

Let's face it. In most of life we really are interdependent. We need each other. Staunch independence is an illusion, but heavy dependence isn't healthy, either. The only position of long-term strength is interdependence: win/win.

She was doomed, she was flooding and she was going down, but she had reached a point where there was an illusion that she would float a longer period. People were inside, not panicked, and suddenly the hull cracked.

Shakespeare was such a lover of theatre, and theatre is an illusion.

My illusion is dispelled by Your profound words, that You spoke out of compassion towards me, about the supreme secret of the Self.

Maybe it was an illusion to think people would understand after 23 years that we are unbiased. I can't understand why we've been targeted.

Nevertheless, love was given to us not only as fulfilment, as ideal, but as suffering, hopelessness, despair too. Is it all this the shield of this vanity called dream of our life or Illusion of Life?

Only then man will raise his eyes to the sun that caressed with its rays so many millennia of frustration and anguish, of absurd and uncertainty, of lack of power and suffering. He will hail the sun and the stars and everything that surrounds him knowing they are all vanity of vanities. Vanity of vanities that will give man a meaning! This vanity of vanities will tell the man that he truly dreams his own Illusion of Life, that he finally found the meaning!

I did three and a half years in the architecture school with no real love or feel for it. After quite a while I realized I don't like to pick up a pen and freely sketch and let my imagination run towards structures. And if I don't have that natural desire, what am I doing here? How did I let this illusion go on so long?

I don't know what the situation is with the Australian team but they seem pretty settled. In the same way that there were plenty saying last summer that they did not want to be in the side that loses the Ashes, there'll be more wanting to be in the team that regains them. We are under no illusion about how determined Australia will be.

I am rid of the illusion of the three-phased Maya, when God becomes my help and support.

I have starred in the endless sky, where only clouds can run free, understanding that if will go beyond those clouds, if I conquer the entire universe I will conquer NOTHING, because this is a lie too, as big as I am, a mere Illusion of my Life or other bloody illusions of the lives of other that loose themselves in their reflection in other destinies giving birth to the historical evolution of this lie and with it to the holy book of the spirituality of peoples, in fact the holy book of the spirituality of illusions that were once reflected as images, just like flashes in the Great Void-Being.

From the late Classical period and more so in Romantic and Modern opera, the weight settled into the orchestra, with the voices as a free obbligato above it, ... That just drives me crazy. I want the vocal line to be as much the core as the bass line. I want to create the illusion that the voice generates harmony, color, line, everything.

If it was a truly independent board, I'd be happier about it. As it is now, it creates the illusion that both parties in the state are of equal strength and that's not the case.

If the international community tries to create the illusion that Serbia is conforming with demands ... we won't be able to tolerate it for long.

He encouraged me to make every illusion about my personal dreams and my personal nightmares. So I took that idea and made it about everyone else's dreams . . . It's very moving and very emotional.

He may be seen as one of the architects of an illusion. Or he may be seen as one of the architects of global stability. That needs at least a decade to play out.

The people who are under the illusion that they're going to take all the best from both programs are living a fantasy. You can't give everybody the best of both worlds in a low-cost environment.

We're now at that point where the graphics are good enough to preserve the illusion and make you feel more immersed in the environment,

Harriet Nowell created the illusion of a hoop skirt by the types and placement of the fabric in her design.

It is a dangerous illusion to suppose that another retreat by the civilized world would satisfy the appetite of the terrorists and get them to leave us alone.

I went on just living that illusion that I'd already created for everyone else. I was treating it like a dirty secret or like Arron was this mistake in my life.

I went on just living that illusion that I'd already created for everyone else,

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it.

It is because of speech that men give the illusion of being free. By speaking, they deceive themselves, as they deceive others: because they say what they are going to do, who could suspect they are not masters of their actions?

Pakistan couldn't take Kashmir through wars. There should be no illusion that it could get it through supporting terrorism

Parenthood is one long exercise in relinquishing control -- or the illusion that we ever had it. Postparenthood is about acceptance.

R.J. Reynolds is trying to use partnerships with reputable organizations like the Miss America State Pageants to create the illusion that it has changed and is part of the solution to the tobacco problem.

Place it against a vertical surface to reflect furnishings on the opposite wall to give the illusion that there is space behind.

It creates the illusion that the vertical planes are distant.

I'm so deeply interested in what it feels like to be other people that I get to operate under the illusion when I'm writing fiction that I'm not really revealing that much about myself. But, of course, I am, and I know that I am. And yet there's this sort of membrane that I get to work behind as I write my fiction, and I love it.

Man knows the Illusion of his Life and not the Absolute Truth, the man creates the birth of the universes he has once known, but of the Illusory universes and not of those who form or are a part of the Print of our God who is the Creating Factor and Unique Accidental one.

If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.

We need more troops to defeat 'The Illusion of Failure' in Iraq....29 million should do it.

You just never know what a preseason means. Is it an illusion or reality? I truly believe we're a good team and I think if we've gotten anything out of the preseason, it's the process you go about, and winning will take care of itself. Our players understand that and they're focused on doing things right.

Who can know the absolute truth of illusion or emptiness? That is why we feel the fulfilled sense of this world.

Without an African internal market, it is an illusion to believe that we can strive towards overseas markets.

We must not harbor the illusion of a killer application.

Time is an illusion that arises from the educated perception of human senses and mind to the changes that happened. Stop the changes, or terminate the educated perception, then time will cease to exist.

Time is an illusion perpetrated by the manufacturers of space.

What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are.

The present age prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.

You have the illusion that you're looking straight down at the bottom of the hill.

We're not under any illusion that we or the teams we are going to be working with are right out of the box going to be in the victory circle. It's a long-term commitment.

We are on the right path, but we are not yet consistently at the levels either expected by customers or required by the regulator. The MRG will continue to play a crucial role in supporting and driving the market to achieve this. I am under no illusion that the task ahead of us remains enormous but I take over the chair of the MRG with a passionate belief in the need for reform.

We recognize users should have a place to ride but we're not under the illusion that will take away the problem. There are two types of users, and for some, riding where they aren't allowed is part of the mystique and thrill.

Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.

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

Despair is the only cure for illusion.

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

Its really easy to get colors right. Its really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a color but its also an illusion.

Sometimes my art is just an illusion - or is it?

Always hedge your bets. That's how I do it. I lay all my bets on what I can contribute, and suffer no illusions that I'm generating stuff by myself.

Watergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality.

What does not contain love must contain an illusion.

A shadow of a reflection of an image of an illusion.

Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering.

Is not this world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control.

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

Ive said its a little bit like a magician performing for a convention of magicians... all the magicians in the audience watching this illusion-Do they see the illusion, or do they see the device that made the illusion? Probably they see a little of both.

It's overwhelming. I feel as if I am living in an illusion a dream where all things are possible. Amazing things do happen I know but always to someone else always in some far off place and time.

Routine feeds the illusion of safety...

The illusion of perfection is an illusion anyway.

It's only when you become love - in other words, when you have dropped your illusions and attachments - that you will "know." As you identify less and less with the "me," you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything.

The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion.

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

Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.

An illusion which is a real experience is worth having.

A figment of the imagination is just a harmless illusion - unless you are victim of it.

Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.

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

Hollywood, of course, is the city of illusion.

That's the illusion - the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out - and it has affected us in many ways. That's a part of the idea that professing is enough.

And I find myself saying, “It wasn’t really about her.” And finding it’s true. What do you mean?” Norah asks. It was about the feeling, you know? She caused it in me, but it wasn’t about her. It was about my reaction, what I wanted to feel and then convinced myself that I felt, because I wanted it that bad. That illusion. It was love because I created it as love.

Invention despoils observations, insinuation invalidates memory. A stewpot of bad habits, all of it - so that imaginative writers wind up, by and large, a shifty crew, sunk in distortion, misrepresentation, illusion, imposture, fakery.

You're a prisoner of your own illusions - about yourself and about the world.

We all have our little illusions about our own mental abilities.

Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood at all was probably an illusion.

Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.

Without art we live under the illusion that there is only time, and not eternity.

We're under the illusion that the lives, loves, mores and money of the rich and famous are more interesting, important and worthy of attention than our own. It's just another symptom of how messed up every aspect of our media-driven culture is.

Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice.

We can't allow to pay ... with the blood of our people and the blood of our citizens for some illusion of stability or restraint in the Middle East,

The only thing you will ever possess is yourself, and that only briefly, if at all.

When we make purchases on credit, they give us only an illusion of prosperity.

We're talking about house arrest here. An advocate has to be there or this is just an illusion.

Well, I also love magic, which is, you know, different than showmanship. Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder.

We all know that roller coasters and other amusement park rides are fun, fast and thrilling, ... They are supposed to create the illusion of danger, without putting people at risk. But the increased number of deaths and injuries tell a different story.