Quotes about Illusion

Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known euphemistically as the stately homes of England.

One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror

If we venture beyond the pale of Scripture, we are...exposed to all the illusions of imagination and enthusiasm.

The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.

Seeing is not always believing.

That very afternoon they had seemed full of brilliant qualities; now she saw that they were merely dull in a loud way.

He felt himself flung back on all the ugly uncertainties from which he thought he had cast loose forever. After all, what did he know of her life? Only as much as she had chosen to show him, and measured by the world's estimate, how little that was!

Control and certainty are myths.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.