“The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!” Has BeensJobsPurposeHalfHumourIllusionSatireComfortingBack AgainHalf TruthVeneerCosyFlanders Author:Michael Flanders
“May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.” YearsMayHas BeensBookIllusionFellowsHumbleContraryFortyArchitectGrandeurPublic GoodOpen BookDelusions Of GrandeurIllusions Of Grandeur Author:Ralph Thomas Walker
“Illusions... are simple facts, but they have been created by the mind, by the spirit, and they are one of the justifications of the new spatial configuration.” MindHas BeensFactsSpiritSimpleIllusionJustificationSpatialConfiguration Author:Georges Braque
“When I look over my past, I see that the stages in my life are like the phases of the moon. I've had periods where I was the waxing gibbous: fat with wealth and success. There have been other seasons when my happiness was like the waning crescent and I watched my joy fade away slowly, merging with the atmosphere around me as if it never existed. Then I felt as if I was left with nothing more than an illusion, but happiness returns in time and glows once more in corpulent fullness. It's time that makes the difference.” IfsLooksHas BeensPastJoyLeftFeltDifferencesWealthStageReturnPeriodsMoonIllusionSeasonsFatsAtmosphereFadesPhasesFullnessMy PastFade AwayMergingCrescentWaxingWealth And SuccessPhases Of The Moon Author:Amy Neftzger
“No, there is now no circumstance known in which it can be affirmed that microscopic beings came into the world without germs, without parents similar to themselves. Those who affirm it have been duped by illusions, by ill-conducted experiments, spoilt by errors that they either did not perceive or did not know how to avoid.” KnowsWorldHas BeensParentKnownKnow HowCircumstancesIllusionErrorsIllExperimentsPerceiveGermsSpoilt Author:Louis Pasteur
“The Theatre of the Absurd ... can be seen as the reflection of what seems to be the attitude most genuinely representative of our own time.  The hallmark of this attitude is its sense that the certitudes and unshakable basic assumptions of former ages have been swept away, that they have been tested and found wanting, that they have been discredited as cheap and somewhat childish illusions.” Has BeensSeemsAgeFoundAttitudeIllusionReflectionTheatreAbsurdFormerAssumptionRepresentativesTestedHallmarkSwept AwayUnshakableCertitude Author:Martin Esslin