“I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there's just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.” NeedsLooksKindFilmCertainActorsStarsQualityFiguresParticularOrdinaryIllusionClaimsFilm Stars Author:Stephen Fry
“What an illusion Mahamaya has conjured up! Here is this infinite world, and what one claims as his possession will be left behind at death. Still men cannot understand this simple truth.” MenWorldStillsLeftSimpleBehindsIllusionClaimsInfinitePossessionLeft BehindSimple Truths Author:Sarada Devi
“The claim is also sometimes made that science is as arbitrary or irrational as all other claims to knowledge, or that reason itself is an illusion. As Ethan Allen said Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason; if with reason, then they establish the principle that they are labouring to dethrone. If they argue without reason, which they must do, in order to be consistent with themselves, they are out of reach of rational conviction, nor do they deserve a rational argument.” IfsMadeSaidSometimesReasonScienceOrderPrinciplesOughtIllusionDeserveArgumentClaimsConvictionArguingRationalConsistentIrrationalArbitrary Author:Carl Sagan
“The world comes second hand - fifth hand - to us and the illusion that it is fresh because it is shown as a picture of an actual place or is given as a 'true account' by some reporter who claims to have been 'there' divides man into incalculable parts without any true center.” MenWorldHas BeensHandsGivenMediaTelevisionIllusionAccountsClaimsMovieDividesReportersFifthSecond Hand Author:Josephine Herbst
“I think nobody would claim that random genetic drift is capable of producing adaptation, that is to say the illusion of design. Random genetic drift can't produce wings that are good at flying, or eyes that are good at seeing, or legs that are good at running. But random genetic drift probably is very important in driving evolution at the molecular genetic level.” ThinkingImportantEyeRunningLevelsSeeingDesignProduceEvolutionCapableIllusionClaimsWingsLegsDrivingFlyingAdaptation Author:Richard Dawkins
“The Soviet State does not need either illusions or camouflage. It can claim only that world authority which is confirmed by the facts.” WorldNeedsDoeStatesFactsAuthorityIllusionClaimsSovietCamouflage Author:Leon Trotsky
“If one chooses sides on emotion then the rebel is the guy to go with. He is fighting for everything men claim to honour, freedom, independance, truth, the right.......all the subjective illusions. All the eternal trigger words. We are minions of the villan of the piece. We confess the illusion and deny the substance.” IfsMenGuyFightingSidesEmotionPiecesEternalIllusionClaimsDenySubstanceHonourRebelSubjectiveTriggersMinionsIndependance Book:Chronicles of the Black Company Source: Chronicles of the Black Company