Quotes about Illusion

Time...which is eternity in disguise.

Modern man fell into the trap of believing that everything can be explained, that reality is a simple affair which has only to be organized in order to be mastered.

Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.

Expecting to find the answer, we find only the duplicate of our own problem.

My dear, the world is filled with brilliant, smiling monsters. I'm one who like to show his teeth.

They believe that a good intention already means a new beginning; they believe that on their own they can make a new start whenever they want. But that is an evil illusion: only God can make a new beginning with people whenever God pleases, but not people with God.

We say that religion is a matter of mood: we must wait until the mood strikes us. And then we often wait for years —perhaps until the end of our life—until we are once again in the mood to be religious. This idea is based on a great illusion. It is alll well and good to let religion be a matter of mood, but God is not a matter of mood. He is still present even when we are not in the mood to meet with him.

The life of West, Nietzsche said, is based on Christianity. The values of the West are based on Christianity. Some of these values seem to have taken a life of their own, and this gives us the illusion that we can get rid of Christianity and keep the values. This, Nietzsche says, is an illusion...Remove the Christian foundation, and the values must go too.

Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It's not real life.

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.

...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by excluding moral truths and personal responsibility.