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“Illusions are shadows moving endlessly across the ground. The shadows are quite real but they're shadows. They have very little substance.”

Littles Real Moving Ignorance Illusion Shadow Substance

Author:Frederick Lenz

“All the manifest forms of existence are but illusions. They are momentary displays of consciousness, flashes of lightening in the sky. They are there for a moment and then they are gone.”

Moments Form Existence Consciousness Gone Sky Ignorance Illusion Manifest Display Flash Momentary

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We fall into states of illusion - we forget all this. We get caught up in desires, frustrations, political movements, philosophies, religions, the getting of a living, the pain of a body, the pleasure of a body.”

States Philosophy Body Pain Political Desire Fall Forget Pleasure Movement Ignorance Illusion Caught Frustration Caught Up Political Movements

Author:Frederick Lenz

“At the moment you're suffering from what we call Maya. Maya is illusion. Maya is a Sanskrit word that suggests that we have forgotten. We've forgotten the purpose of life.”

Moments Purpose Suffering Ignorance Illusion Forgotten Purpose Of Life Sanskrit

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is illusion, the way you see things now, thinking that there is a tomorrow, there is a today, there is time and that there is life and death. Those are just appearances”

Thinking Way Today Ignorance Tomorrow Illusion Appearance Life And Death

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can be in a state of mind for a few seconds and forget that you were ever in any other state of mind. That's what we mean by illusion.”

Mind Mean States Forget Ignorance Illusion Seconds State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What gets frustrating for some people is the fact that you might get very high, but you find yourself pulled down again. There are forces of illusion or maya that cause us to make mistakes.”

People Facts Might Force Causes Mistake Ignorance Illusion Making Mistakes Finding Yourself Frustrating

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It's only illusions that destroy us. It's illusions that convince us that we can't. It's the illusions of the transient that tell us that all this matters.”

Matter Ignorance Illusion Convince Transient Convince Us

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Reincarnation is not necessarily linear. Sometimes people actually become more immersed in darkness or illusion than they were in previous lifetimes.”

People Sometimes Darkness Illusion Lifetime Reincarnation Linear

Author:Frederick Lenz

“To try and fit reincarnation into a neat mental package is very unwise. You will be very surprised when you discover that it doesn't work out that way. Your illusions will be painful for you.”

Way Trying Fit Illusion Painful Work Out Reincarnation Packages Neat Unwise

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.”

Knows Men Science Knowledge Illusion Increase Know Me

Author:Anatole France

“Sometimes I think death is a greater awareness than life. Life gives us the illusion of immortality, whereas death gives us the certainty of immortality”

Thinking Giving Sometimes Death Greater Awareness Illusion Certainty Immortality

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

Needs Looks Kind Film Certain Actors Stars Quality Figures Particular Ordinary Illusion Claims Film Stars

Author:Stephen Fry

“Bright and illustrious illusions!”

Illusion

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“The loss of our illusions is the only loss from which we never recover.”

Loss Illusion

Author:Ouida

“Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world--the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law. They all wear black, too, for are they not in mourning for every virtue and every illusion?”

Thinking Men World Law Three Black Virtue Modern Type Illusion Mourning Priests Physicians Attorney Modern Society

Author:Honore de Balzac

“I think the King is but a man as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me.”

Thinking Men Kings Illusion Smell Violet

Author:William Shakespeare

“There are optical illusions in time as well as space.”

Wells Space Illusion Optical Illusions

Book:The prisoner and the fugitive

Source: The prisoner and the fugitive

“[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation--and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear which binds together all humanity--the dead to the living and the living to the unborn.”

Source: The Portable Conrad

“Magic lives in curves, not angles.”

Magic Illusion Angle Curves

Author:Mason Cooley

“For valuing your own suffering sets on it the gold of a sun of pride. Suffering a lot can originate the illusion of being the Chosen of Pain.”

Pain Suffering Sun Pride Illusion Gold Chosen

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“Either Christianity is true or it's false. If you bet that it's true, and you believe in God and submit to Him, then if it IS true, you've gained God, heaven, and everything else. If it's false, you've lost nothing, but you've had a good life marked by peace and the illusion that ultimately, everything makes sense. If you bet that Christianity is not true, and it's false, you've lost nothing. But if you bet that it's false, and it turns out to be true, you've lost everything and you get to spend eternity in hell.”

Ifs Believe Turns Lost Heaven Christianity Hell Illusion Eternity Being True Make Sense Believe In God Good Life Submit True You Lost Everything

Author:Blaise Pascal

“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.”

Mind Has Beens Facts Spirit Simple Illusion Justification Spatial Configuration

Author:Georges Braque

“I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the world around me, the better company I am for myself.”

World I Can Helping Company Illusion Fewer

Author:Noel Coward

“An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time”

Ifs Ignorance Illusion Depth Blockheads

Book:No Compromise: Selected Writings of Karl Kraus

Source: No Compromise: Selected Writings of Karl Kraus

“There is no such thing as real happiness in life. The justest definition that was ever given of it was "a tranquil acquiescence under an agreeable delusion"--I forget where.”

Real Given Forget Illusion Definitions Delusion Life Happiness Tranquil Real Happiness Acquiescence

Book:The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author

“Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth? - photography, once it begins to reproduce colors, and that won't be long in coming. And yet you want an intelligent man to sweat for months so as to give the illusion he can do something as well as an ingenious little machine can!”

Knows Men Want Giving Wells Littles Long Can Do Color Months Photography Illusion Machines Ultimate Intelligent Do You Know Sweat Ingenious Can Do Something Intelligent Man

Book:The writings of a savage

Source: The writings of a savage

“What you think is an illusion created by your glands, your emotions and, in the last analysis, by the content of your stomach. That gray matter you're so proud of is like a mirror in an amusement park which transmits to you nothing but distorted signals from reality forever beyond your grasp.”

Thinking Matter Reality Lasts Emotion Forever Proud Illusion Mirrors Analysis Parks Gray Stomach Signals Amusement Transmit Glands Amusement Parks Gray Matter

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“Illusion and wisdom combined are the charm of life and art.”

Art Illusion Charm

Book:Pensées of Joubert

Source: Pensées of Joubert

“No matter what the illusion created, it is a flat canvas and it has to be organized into shapes.”

Matter Shapes Illusion No Matter What Organized Flats Canvas

Book:David Hockney

Source: David Hockney

“However, one cannot put a quart in a pint cup.”

Illusion Cups Pints

Book:The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography

Source: The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography

“Illusion throughout is illusion. There is no end to it, just as there is no end to imagination.”

Ends Imagination Illusion

Author:Meher Baba

“If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation.”

Ifs Sides Doubt Battle Enlightenment Illusion Enlightened Printed Harbors Proletariat Agitation

Author:Johann Most

“If you strive to find your Self by using your mind, you will strive and strive in vain, because the mind cannot give you the Truth. You are that Self. All else is illusion of the mind's creation.”

Ifs Giving Mind Self Creation Illusion Strive Vain

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“There are other relations besides reality, which the mind is capable of grasping and which also are primary, like chance, illusion, the fantastic, the dream.”

Mind Dream Reality Chance Capable Illusion Relation Fantastic Primaries Grasping

Author:Louis Aragon

“The most dangerous of our calculations are those we call illusions.”

Dangerous Danger Illusion Calculations

Author:Georges Bernanos

“The experience of love and the experience of death destroy the illusion of our self-sufficiency. The two are closely connected, and to become fully human we must experience both of them.”

Humans Two Self Illusion Experience Connected Self Sufficiency Sufficiency

Author:David Steindl-Rast

“There is something about nature out of control that touches a primal terror. We are used to believing that we're the masters of our domain, and that God has given us this earth to rule over. We need this illusion like a good night-light.”

Needs Believe Light Earth Used Night Given Nature Masters Illusion Terror Domain Primal Good Night Night Light

Book:Two Classic Volumes from Robert R. McCammon

Source: Two Classic Volumes from Robert R. McCammon

“I have few illusions: the cause is lost in advance. As for me, I do my part, which is to drag a fairly drab existence to its conclusion.”

Lost Causes Existence Illusion Conclusion Drag

Author:Rene Magritte

“Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.”

Humor Funny Joy Existence Music Solutions Illusion Crafts Liquid

Author:Fred Rogers

“The painter's only solid ground is the palette and colors, but as soon as the colors achieve an illusion, they are no longer judged.”

Achieve Color Illusion Painter Judged Palette

Book:Discoveries: Bonnard: Shimmering Color

Source: Discoveries: Bonnard: Shimmering Color

“The hardest thing to remember is that what we each really want is the truth of our lives, good or bad. Not rocking the boat is an illusion that can only be maintained by the unspoken agreement not to feel and in the long run it never really works. Let go of saving the boat and save the passengers instead.”

Want Feels Long Running Remember Our Lives Letting Go Illusion Hardest Boat Saving Agreement Good Life Long Runs Hardest Thing Passengers Unspoken Rocking The Boat

Author:Kenny Loggins

“Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion.”

Illusion Tricks Falsehood Deceiving Egotism Deluded Jugglers

Author:Guru Nanak

“The peculiarity of sculpture is that it creates a three-dimensional object in space. Painting may strive to give on a two-dimensional plane, the illusion of space, but it is space itself as a perceived quantity that becomes the peculiar concern of the sculptor. We may say that for the painter space is a luxury; for the sculptor it is a necessity.”

Giving May Two Three Space Objects Painting Illusion Concern Strive Painter Luxury Planes Peculiar Quantity Sculpture Sculptors

Author:Herbert Read

“Being famous gives you a lot of illusions of false self, of self-importance, a grandiosity, it becomes difficult to stay humble and real. You see so many people who don't succeed.”

People Giving Real Self Difficult Succeed Illusion Importance Humble Being Famous Real You Self-importance Stay Humble

Author:Lili Taylor

“I brought color to bridal. There was one whole season of blush. If you think about the bareness, the illusion (fabric), the corsets that I did in bridal, they were trends in ready-to-wear, too.”

Ifs Thinking Whole Color Ready Illusion Seasons Trends Fabric Corsets Bridal

Author:Vera Wang

“To ensure that our views are credible, our brain accepts what our eye sees. To ensure that our views are positive, our eye looks for what our brain wants. The conspiracy between these two servants allows us to live at the fulcrum of stark reality and comforting illusion.”

Want Looks Two Reality Eye Views Brain Accepting Illusion Servant Conspiracy Comforting Starks Credible Fulcrum Stark Reality

Book:Stumbling on Happiness

Source: Stumbling on Happiness

“We are not disillusioned because we have no illusions... What we have and what is our strength, is our joy in life... in all its amoral aspects. That is also the basis of our contemporary art.”

Art Joy Illusion Aspect Bases Contemporary Disillusioned Contemporary Art

Book:Asger Jorn

Source: Asger Jorn

“I'm really creating abstract shapes and relationships that work together. They come together and give the illusion of reality, but they're really abstract shapes. If you look at individual shapes, they aren't the shape of anything, but together they give you the illusion of hills and sun and flowers.”

Ifs Giving Looks Reality Together Individual Sun Flower Shapes Creating Illusion Hills Abstract Working Together

Author:John Newman

“You see, my good friend, how much we are the creatures of situation and circumstance, and with what pliant servility the mind resigns itself to the impressions of the senses, or the illusions of the imagination”

Mind Imagination Situation Circumstances Creatures Illusion Senses Impression Good Friend Servility

Book:The wild Irish girl: a national tale

Source: The wild Irish girl: a national tale

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