Quotes about Illusions

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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. — Mark Twain
Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others. — Virginia Woolf
if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with — Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as tru — Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
I have been finding treasures in places I did not want to search. I have been hearing wisdom from tongues I did not want — Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
There are two paths of which one may choose in the walk of life; one we are born with, and the one we consciously blaze. — T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
Subhuti, someone might fill innumerable worlds with the seven treasures and give all away in gifts of alms, but if any g — Gautama Buddha, Diamond Sutra
Expectation has brought me disappointment. Disappointment has brought me wisdom. Acceptance, gratitude and appreciation — Rasheed Ogunlaru
The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is, indeed, the sel — Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
Nos-tal-gic,’ Akira said, as though it were a word he had been struggling to find. Then he said a word in Japanese, perh — Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans
War is being reminded that you are completely at the mercy of death at every moment, without the illusion that you are n — Francesca Lia Block, House of Dolls
There’s no such thing as a good or bad person: there are just people who have each been or seem to have been good or bad — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
When it comes to their love lives, some people do not really have high standards; they merely have low sex drive. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Problems are perceptual illusions. — Debasish Mridha
Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigme — H. Rider Haggard, She
Our desires, dreams and hopes, open portals. These portals manifest in our conscience and 5 senses, in the form of decis — Robin Sacredfire
I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to o — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
Everyone lives bound by their own knowledge and awareness. They define that as reality; but knowledge and awareness are — Masashi Kishimoto
Maybe the truth doesn’t exist if you look the other way. — Shannon Mullen, See What Flowers
It is of the essence of any party to gain its orientation not from truths but from illusions which usually correspond to — Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism