The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. Votes: 4
George Bernard ShawThe greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. Votes: 3
Daniel J. BoorstinIllusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other. Votes: 3
Emile M. CioranRomantic Love is only an Illusion. A story one makes up in One's Mind about Another Person. Votes: 3
Virginia WoolfI am the Mindfreak, there's no Reality! Just this World of Illusion that keeps on haunting me... Votes: 3
Criss AngelTherefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions. Votes: 2
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. Votes: 2
Albert EinsteinSometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. Votes: 2
Friedrich NietzscheThe task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes. Votes: 2
Arthur MillerA great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. Votes: 2
Saul BellowWe live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. Votes: 2
Iris MurdochThe illusion of selfhood, ego, a separate identity is false. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell"There are no illusions" - This is a gross illusion. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellFascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion. Votes: 0
Friedrich August von Hayek...but glittering prizes and endless compromises shatter the illusion of integrity. Votes: 0
Neil PeartThere won't be emptiness. Emptiness is just another idea, another illusion. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellCertainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man. Votes: 0
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.Don't aim for perfect. Aim for complete. Perfection is an unattainable illusion. Votes: 0
Lisa GenovaNothing real stands between you and your happiness, only illusion and confusion. Votes: 0
Robert HoldenConsciousness is the ultimate Reality; compared with it, all else is illusion. Votes: 0
Harold PercivalCommunism has been the greatest and bloodiest illusion that humanity ever bore Votes: 0
Gianfranco FiniThe boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion Votes: 0
Donna J. HarawayLooking aroundthere is nothing but illusionEverything is drownedin the oceans of illusion Votes: 0
Rixa WhiteHowever much you paid for a beautiful illusion, you got a bargain. Votes: 0
Marie von Ebner-EschenbachRealize all this as illusion, realize that within the illusion is the Real. Votes: 0
Swami VivekanandaIt is the illusion of knowledge, not ignorance, that keeps one from growing. Votes: 0
Jerry UelsmannThe greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism. Votes: 0
Kevin McCloud...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will. Votes: 0
Anthony BurgessNo battle is ever won ... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools. Votes: 0
William FaulknerI probably complicate things unnecessarily now just to give the illusion of professionalism. Votes: 0
Henry ThomasWriting is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion. Votes: 0
Georges BraqueThe seduction of safety is always more dangerous than the illusion of uncertainty. Votes: 0
Robin SharmaCensors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion. Votes: 0
David I. RozenbergLeaders dig into their business to learn painful realities rather than peaceful illusion. Votes: 0
Orrin WoodwardThe process of illusion & disillusionment is part of life and goes on endlessly. Votes: 0
Nelson MandelaWe insist that society should conform to our own subjective illusion of reality. Votes: 0
Robert AnthonyHe had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen. Votes: 0
John Maynard KeynesThe illusion of randomness gradually disappears as the skill in chart reading improves. Votes: 0
John MurphyWe're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will. Votes: 0
Anthony BurgessA man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart. Votes: 0
George Jean NathanThe love is real in any situation; everything else is just an illusion. Votes: 0
Marianne WilliamsonAttachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached. Votes: 0
Simone WeilThe great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno . Votes: 0
Italo SvevoFree will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. Votes: 0
Scott AdamsImmortality is a ridiculous illusion, an empty word, a butterfly net chasing the wind. Votes: 0
Milan KunderaProgress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing. Votes: 0
George OrwellSome people think the Nobel Prize makes you bullet-proof. I never had that illusion. Votes: 0
Wole SoyinkaThe task of the software development team is to engineer the illusion of simplicity. Votes: 0
Grady BoochThe economic illusion is the belief that social justice is bad for economic growth. Votes: 0
Robert KuttnerWhere happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important. Votes: 0
Colum McCannWe must shed the illusion that we can deliberately 'create the future of mankind' Votes: 0
Friedrich August von HayekThe idea that the world can unite without being regulated is clearly an illusion. Votes: 0
Guy VerhofstadtMonopoly power is an illusion in any system in which free competition is allowed. Votes: 0
John PugsleyArriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it. Votes: 0
Jon Kabat-ZinnLie, illusion, deception, she said--was that it truly, the universal language we all speak? Votes: 0
Cynthia OzickTo take command, one must first create the illusion that command is already yours. Votes: 0
Denise DomningWhen we bury the illusion of perfection, we uncover the reality of daily progress. Votes: 0
Terry Crouson"The dream is real but it does not last" - This is an illusion. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellThe greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. Votes: 0
Stephen HawkingLove matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheSuccess - To rise from the illusion of pursuit to the disillusion of possession. Votes: 0
Elbert HubbardDon't take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion. Votes: 0
Wole SoyinkaI don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion. Votes: 0
Mike MillsA poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread. Votes: 0
Georges BernanosIls en conclurent que la syntaxe est une fantaisie et la grammaire une illusion. Votes: 0
Gustave FlaubertWhen someone says 'I'm so disillusioned', I say 'Congratulations! You've lost another illusion.' Votes: 0
Parker J. PalmerWhen we make purchases on credit, they give us only an illusion of prosperity. Votes: 0
Joseph B. WirthlinLuck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish. Votes: 0
Timothy ZahnI have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury. Votes: 0
Sydney SmithMemory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending. Votes: 0
Ray BradburyUntil you really loving, kind, caring, and compassionate, happiness will be an illusion to you. Votes: 0
Debasish MridhaAs in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari. Votes: 0
John C. HawkesWhat you wish for, what you most hope for - that is your greatest illusion. Votes: 0
Christopher PikeThere has never been a greater illusion than fear. Fear exists only whilst you believe Votes: 0
Geoff ThompsonChange is eminent, control is an illusion, but dreams are eternal. Believe in your dreams! Votes: 0
Greg SmithBelieving that things happen too slowly or too quickly is an illusion. Timing is perfect. Votes: 0
Melody BeattieAll stories are born out of illusion, but that doesn't mean they're not worth telling. Votes: 0
Eric Micha'el LeventhalReligion is an illusion and every illusion has the inevitable destiny of a soap bubble! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanIt is the illusion of all lovers to think themselves unique and their words immortal. Votes: 0
Han SuyinThe world, life and human beings are only an illusion, a phantom, a dream image. Votes: 0
August StrindbergPerhaps the universe is a big fat consciousness and the matter is just an illusion. Votes: 0
Erol OzanA dolphin's smile is the greatest deception. It creates the illusion that they're always happy. Votes: 0
Ric O'BarryWithout art we live under the illusion that there is only time, and not eternity. Votes: 0
Clarissa Pinkola EstesWomen, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion. Being fascinated, they fascinate. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe emotion of love gives all of us a misleading illusion of knowing the other. Votes: 0
Milan KunderaThe believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonAn illusion can become a half-truth, a mask can alter the expression of a face. Votes: 0
George OrwellLike the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion. Votes: 0
Guru NanakFree will and consciousness is an illusion, and the self is a complex of memes. Votes: 0
Susan BlackmoreThere's no cure for ugly, but you can make yourself into a human optical illusion. Votes: 0
Jenna MarblesWatergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality. Votes: 0
Clare Boothe LuceInsight enables you to know your own heart. Clarity enables you to accept without illusion. Votes: 0
Deepak ChopraOur greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be. Votes: 0
Henri Frederic AmielWe manufacture anger to give ourselves the illusion of power when we feel weak and helpless. Votes: 0
Sophie HannahEnergy is the belief in a separation and that which creates and keeps the illusion alive. Votes: 0
Vivian AmisGreat feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion. Votes: 0
Robert BurtonExperience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion. Votes: 0
Walter Darby BannardA shattered illusion is a sorrowful experience; but a life without illusion is a sorrowful life Votes: 0
Jose NaroskyGreat feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion. Votes: 0
George EliotThere is no more dangerous illusion than the fancies by which people try to avoid illusion. Votes: 0
Francois FenelonChrist's love and friendship are no illusion. On the Cross Jesus showed how real they are. Votes: 0
Pope FrancisIt might seem that this knowledge is cold, devoid of emotion, empty. This is another illusion. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellThe illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of our consciousness. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinIf there's one thing I've learned my whole life, time and age are but an illusion. Votes: 0
Elizabeth Reyes...it is not for the illusion of a moment to govern the choice of a lifetime. Votes: 0
Pierre Choderlos de LaclosIt is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it. Votes: 0
W. Somerset MaughamI drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull. Votes: 0
John GalsworthyThe painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free. Votes: 0
Laura Anne GilmanAn illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground. Votes: 0
Christoph Martin WielandAn illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time Votes: 0
Karl KrausGaga is an entertainer, so a hat for her is part of the illusion of entertaining. Votes: 0
Philip TreacyExercise is the most awful illusion. The secret is a lot of aspirin and marrons glaces. Votes: 0
Noel CowardWhat I say is misdirection, what you see is an illusion and what results is magic. Votes: 0
Amit KalantriThe obstacle in spritual growth is not ignorance of self, it is the illusion of self. Votes: 0
Aditya AjmeraThere is no cure for ugly, but you can make yourself into a human optical illusion. Votes: 0
Jenna MarblesI've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security. Votes: 0
Hal SparksBlessed is he who believes in the illusion because thus he can find his great truth! Votes: 0
Sorin CerinChange is an illusion because we're always at the place where any future can take us. Votes: 0
Alan WattsBecause you can't keep up the illusion forever," I say. "No one has that much magic. Votes: 0
Libba BrayWhen you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion. Votes: 0
Walter Darby BannardOne day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion Votes: 0
VoltaireLove is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion. Votes: 0
Calvin MillerThe illusion of magic is an idealistic fantasy; it exists only in the imagination of the spectator. Votes: 0
Paul LePaulThe illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages. Votes: 0
Horace GreeleyIf an illusion makes a man happy, destroy that illusion! Because happiness must come via the truth! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanThereâs simply no polite way to tell people theyâve dedicated their lives to an illusion. Votes: 0
Daniel DennettWe all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion. Votes: 0
Ansel AdamsWork and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion. Votes: 0
Swami VivekanandaLife is a process of losing our illusions, until we finally lose the illusion that we're alive. Votes: 0
Ashleigh BrilliantWe are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal. Votes: 0
John OrtbergIn youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose. Votes: 0
Sophie SwetchinePainting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. Votes: 0
Philip GustonWe're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it. Votes: 0
Mordecai Wyatt JohnsonI don't want to give the illusion that one day God came down and I was healed. Votes: 0
Cheryl JamesThe highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free. Votes: 0
Margaret AtwoodThe hard part about one being tough yet meek is the illusion of being a punching bag. Votes: 0
Criss JamiThe journey of life is a mental one, which is taking place in the sea of illusion. Votes: 0
Neville GoddardA figment of the imagination is just a harmless illusion - unless you are victim of it. Votes: 0
Cullen HightowerThe notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young. Votes: 0
Iris MurdochDecorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is. Votes: 0
Charles M. SchulzThe illusion of purpose is to be avoided. The illuion of lack of purpose is to be avoided. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellThe key is for the audience never to know, so I have a plan B for every illusion. Votes: 0
David CopperfieldActing is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter of being real. Votes: 0
Laurence OlivierThe trick was looking past the illusion, because the exit was never as far away as it seemed. Votes: 0
Lauren DeStefanoillusion throughout is illusion. There is no end to it, just as there is no end to imagination. Votes: 0
Meher BabaWe seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion. Votes: 0
Benjamin CardozoRob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke. Votes: 0
Henrik IbsenAnimation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one. Votes: 0
Brad Birdlisten to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot Votes: 0
Jack KerouacYou have no fixed self. This is only an illusion that causes you to feel pain and suffering. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellThe "end of a world" never is and never can be anything but the end of an illusion Votes: 0
Rene GuenonTo have the illusion of selfhood simply means that when you look in the mirror, you see somebody. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellTo me, the art of movies is to take a two-dimensional image and give the illusion of depth. Votes: 0
William FriedkinThis is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing ... Votes: 0
Nassim Nicholas TalebThere is an illusion that has much to do with... most of our unhappiness.... We expect too much. Votes: 0
Joseph P. FarrellWhen one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion. Votes: 0
Jiddu KrishnamurtiToday, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion. Votes: 0
Gabriel Garcia MarquezI even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler. Votes: 0
Perry ChristieFear is the illusion that I have some control over the bad things that might happen to me. Votes: 0
Michael TreanorI'm intrigued by fanatics - people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute. Votes: 0
Jon KrakauerThis was no ordinary UFO. Scores of people saw it. It was no illusion, no deception, no imagination. Votes: 0
Azim DaudpotaDid I choose this life of illusion? Don't be mad. My bed was made, I just lied in it. Votes: 0
Tim O'BrienIf you want to stay in a state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up. Votes: 0
Alan WattsAh, love. Thatâs what the world has lost. Thereâs no more love, only the illusion of it. Votes: 0
Lauren DeStefanoFor you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion. Votes: 0
Emile M. CioranTime is just an illusion. What you need is to live this very moment. That is all that matters. Votes: 0
Elif SafakNo matter what the illusion created, it is a flat canvas and it has to be organized into shapes... Votes: 0
David HockneyLiking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society. Votes: 0
John FowlesThe root of evil is in the illusion that we are bodies. This, if any, is the original sin. Votes: 0
Swami VivekanandaI work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place. Votes: 0
Pablo PicassoA story is nothing but a lie. An illusion. And that illusion only works if we trust in it. Votes: 0
Eduardo HalfonThe true genius of a Woman is her subtle flair in creating the illusion that you are the smart one Votes: 0
Josh SternMuch violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared. Votes: 0
Henri NouwenWe may think that our tradition is exactly the same as it has always been, but that is an illusion. Votes: 0
Oliver D. CrispI don't know if it was love or an illusion. I don't know if there's ever a way to be certain. Votes: 0
Lauren DeStefanoI don't try to be clever at all. The idea that I could see what no one else can is an illusion. Votes: 0
Daniel KahnemanWäre es überhaupt möglich, eine Erfahrung zu machen, ohne eine Illusion gehabt zu haben!
Kessel, MartinAm Anfang eines neuen Jahres kann man sich auch vorstellen, daß die Zeit eine Illusion ist.
Kreisler, GeorgDas Vergnügen kann auf der Illusion beruhen, doch das Glück beruht allein auf der Wahrheit.
Chamfort, NicolasDie Illusion, daß alle adligen Standesgenossen edel und fair sind, habe ich längst verloren.
Prinz Eduard von AnhaltWie teuer du eine schöne Illusion auch bezahlt hast, du hast doch einen guten Handel gemacht.
Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie von