Quotes about Illusion

Life at times loses its sense of reality; it appears to us like a weird, optical illusion - a phantasmagoric bubble that will disappear at the slightest breath.

To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. When the verities become acrobats, we can judge them.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

I had been foolish in imagining that I had seen anything in it, more than that you were extremely good looking, and that I could paint.

Art and art only, can make archaeology beautiful; and the theatric art can use it most directly and most vividly, for it can combine in one exquisite presentation the illusion of actual life with the wonder of the unreal world.

The whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.

You can dine with me to-night, Dorian, can't you?" He shook his head. "To-night she is Imogen," he answered, "and to-morrow night she will be Juliet." "When is she Sibyl Vane?" "Never." "I congratulate you.

Appearance is, in fact, a matter of effect merely, and it is with the effects of nature that you have to deal, not with the real condition of the object.

And if you are already flying upside down and don't know it, your cleverness will do you little good.

We are required to "bet our life" that the visible world, while real, is not reality itself.

The "Western" segment of the church today lives in a bubble of historical illusion about the meaning of discipleship and the gospel. We are dominated by the essentially Enlightenment values that rule American culture: pursuit of happiness, unrestricted freedom of choice, disdain of authority.

The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.