(288 quotes found)
“Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.”
Voltaire
“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”
Oscar Wilde
“What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet”
Woody Allen
“We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.”
Orson Welles
“Tradition is the illusion of permanance.”
“The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality." - Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
Mark Twain
“We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.”
Iris Murdoch
“Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.”
Sigmund Freud
“Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.”
Javan