(288 quotes found)
“I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.”
Alan Watts
“In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.”
Marianne Williamson
“At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes of our lives, which is inaccessible to the fantasies of our own mind or the brutalities of our own will.”
Thomas Merton
“Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion”
Arthur Koestler
“By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors”
Thomas Babington Macaulay
“Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do”
Elizabeth Bowen
“Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.”
Jim Murray
“Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance.”
Edwin Way Teale
“We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy”
Cyril Connolly
“If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.”
Avram Noam Chomsky
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