Quotes about Illusion

A mask partially conceals, but it also tells us that something is behind the mask.

Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air.

You have but noted his fair cheek. A man-trap may be under his fine ruddy-tipped daisies.

I watched a train come in. It was full of tourists, who (it may have been a subjective illusion) seemed to me common and worthless people, and sad into the bargain.

It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

People think they know what they want but they generally don't. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways.

We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.

Once the truth is denied to human beings, it is pure illusion to try to set them free. Truth and freedom either go together hand in hand or together they perish in misery.

I want to see, real, living, and in the hours of my own days, that glory I create as an illusion! I want it real! I want to know that there is someone, somewhere, who wants it, too! Or else what is the use of seeing it, and working, and burning oneself for an impossible vision? A spirit, too, needs fuel. It can run dry.

No. I am complying with the law—to the letter. Your law holds that my life, my work and my property may be disposed of without my consent. Very well, you mAy now dispose of me without my participation in the matter. I will not play the part of defending myself, where no defense is possible, and I will not simulate the illusion of dealing with a tribunal of justice.