Quotes about Illusion
Often, the most dangerous deception was the one that looked the most like the truth.
- Randy Singer
Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves.
- Samuel Johnson
Men have the illusion of having a duty to make the world spin properly, which is precisely what makes it wobble.
- Vernon Howard
Men have the illusion of having a duty to make the world spin properly, which is precisely what makes it wobble.
- Vernon Howard
Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Beware the lure of a handsome Face, the all too ready assumption that the lovely façade must needs have lovely chambers within; for as 'tis with Great Houses, so, too, with Great Men.
- Erica Jong
We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Damned money! Alas! How many religious did it blind! How many cloistered religious did it deceive! Money is the 'droppings of birds' that blinded the eyes of Tobit.
- St. Anthony of Padua
...It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act.
- Victor Hugo
How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature.
- Marc Chagall