68 Illusions Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

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Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces. Sigmund Freud

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One of the illusions that we live by is that we can really know anybody else, and we're often surprised by traits in people that we thought we knew very well. The struggle to overcome loneliness, which is sort of our universal burden, leads us to leap to conclusions about who other people are. Thomas McGuane

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Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics. Steven Pinker

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I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests. Haile Selassie

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Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. Simone Weil

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That's the whole spiritual life. It's learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your illusions, and you start being capable now of true intimacy and love. Eugene H. Peterson

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I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change. Bob Dylan

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Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions. Joseph Conrad

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About myself I have no great illusions. I know what I am. I know what I'm good at. I know what I ain't. I'm always hoping to surprise myself. But I do have a love of music and I do love to communicate it, and that's the best I can do, really. And I can raise a good family, too. Keith Richards

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God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with. Luis Palau

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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions. Carlos Santana

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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

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Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning. Giotto di Bondone

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Every night of our lives, we dream, and our brain concocts visions which are, at least until we wake up, highly convincing. Most of us have had experiences which are verging on hallucination. It shows the power of the brain to knock up illusions. Richard Dawkins

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