Quotes about Illusion

Beauty is often deceitful and vain . You've grown up with beautiful women around you . You know how treacherous they can be. - Bathsheba

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one.

Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one.

Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance.

There are illusions of popular history which a successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumphs; a good deed is its own reward; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness.

He realized suddenly that it was one thing to see the past occupying the present, but the true test of prescience was to see the past in the future. Things persisted in not being what they seemed.

Some never participate. Life happens to them. They get by on little more than dumb persistence and resist with anger or violence all things that might lift them out of resentment-filled illusions of security. -Alma Mavis Taraza

Militant missionary religions can share this illusion of the proud past, ' but few understand the ultimate peril to humankind-that false sense of freedom from responsibility for your own actions.

If you think you own something, that's like walking on quicksand.

Ambitions tend to remain undisturbed by realities

This is the perspective which you create with your own belief, and beliefs can be manipulated by imagination.