Illusion Quotes

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

Joseph Conrad

It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.

John Keats

Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.

E. R. Beadle

Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Oh, how powerfully the magnet of illusion attracts.

Gutzkow

What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death.

William Blake

Illusion is the first of the pleasures

Voltaire

That illusion of a world so shaped that it echoes every groan, of human beings so tied together by common needs and fears that a twitch at one wrist jerks another, where however strange your experience other people have had it too, where however far you travel in your own mind someone has been there before you - - is all an illusion. We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the whole stretch of the way. There is a virgin forest in each; a snowfield where even the print of birds' feet is unknown. Here we go alone, and like it better so. Always to have sympathy, always to be accompanied, always to be understood would be intolerable.

Virginia Woolf

Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?

Virginia Woolf

Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life, than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.

Harry A. Overstreet

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?

Desiderius Erasmus

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

Yasutani Roshi