“The true wisdom of the philosopher ought to insist in enjoying everything. Yet we apply ourselves to dissecting and destroying everything that is good in itself, that has virtue, albeit the virtue there is in mere illusions. Nature gives us this life like a toy to a weak child. We want to see how it all works; we break everything. There remains in our hands, and before our eyes, stupid and opened too late, the sterile wreckage, fragments that will not again make a whole. The good is so simple.” WantGivingChildrenWholeHandsEyeEnjoyNatureSimpleBreakVirtueStupidOughtLateIllusionWeakRemainsMerePhilosopherThis LifeToo LateDestroyingToysFragmentsWreckageTrue WisdomDissectingDestroying Everything Author:Eugene Delacroix
“Birth leads to death, death precedes birth. So if you want to see life as it really is, it is rounded on both the sides by death. Death is the beginning and death is again the end, and life is just the illusion in between. You feel alive between two deaths; the passage joining one death to another you call life. Buddha says this is not life. This life is dukkha - misery. This life is death.” IfsWantFeelsTwoEndsLife IsDeathSidesAliveBirthIllusionMiseryThis LifePassagesJoining Author:Rajneesh
“Too late for changes, too late perhaps for explanations and ideological webs, but the love goes on, the love goes on, blind to laws and warnings and even to wisdom and to fears. And whatever that love is, perhaps an illusion of a new love, I want it, I cant resist it, my whole being melts in one kiss, my knowledge melts, my fears melt, my blood dances, my legs open.” WantLoveWholeLawLove IsBloodGoes OnKissingLateIllusionBlindLegsExplanationToo LateWarningCantIdeologicalBeing Me Author:Anais Nin
“We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.” IfsWantHappinessSpiritualityPassionLiteratureJusticeAtheismIllusionEmbraceAppealsMysticismTemperamentSelectWant To Be Happy Author:Cyril Connolly
“The utter failure came at the Crucifixion in the tragic words, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' If you want to understand the full tragedy of those words you must realize what they meant: Christ saw that his whole life, devoted to the truth according to his best conviction, had been a terrible illusion. He had lived it to the full absolutely sincerely, he had made his honest experiment, but it was nevertheless a compensation. On the cross his mission deserted him. But because he had lived so fully and devotedly he won through to the Resurrection body.” IfsWantMadeWholeBodyChristRealizingSawsHonestTerribleIllusionCrossesTragedyConvictionMissionsWhole LifeExperimentsTragicResurrectionDevotedNeverthelessSincerelyCompensationCrucifixionDesertedForsaken Author:Carl Jung
“Fear forces us to spend our lives dealing with it, ostensibly to overcome it. But that is a trick. Only fear (the illusion of separation) would want us to work to be unafraid, precisely because it is not possible for a separate self to be unafraid!” WantSelfInspirationForceOur LivesIllusionOvercomingBraverySeparationTricksWant UUnafraidDealing With It Author:Cheri Huber
“There's this illusion that homosexuals have sex and heterosexuals fall in love. That's completely untrue. Everybody wants to be loved.” WantFallSexGayIllusionFalling In LoveLgbtHomosexualityHomosexualOrientationGay RightsUntrueBeing GayGay PrideLgbt Pride Author:Boy George
“The illusion that you could hold to yourself the things you most want and lose the things you least wanted to keep..ıs the struggle of lıfe.” WantLifeWantedLosesStruggleIllusion Author:Shahrukh Khan
“As bank customers, we tend to believe that we can have both perfect security for our money, drawing on it whenever we want and never expecting it not to be there, while still earning a regular rate of return. In a true free market, however, there tends to be a tradeoff: you can enjoy a money warehouse or you can hope for a return on your investment. You can't usually have both. The Fed, however, by backing up this fractional-reserve system with a promise of endless bailouts and money creation, attempts to keep the illusion going.” WantBelieveStillsEnjoyPerfectSecurityCreationReturnPromiseIllusionInvestmentRateInvestingCustomersDrawingEndlessFedsExpectingReservesEarningFree MarketWarehouseBailoutsBacking Up Author:Ron Paul
“The things that matter in this country have been reduced in choice, there are two political parties, there are a handful insurance companies, there are six or seven information centers.. but if you want a bagel there are 23 flavors. Because you have the illusion of choice!” IfsWantHas BeensTwoCountryMatterPhilosophyPoliticalChoicesPartyCompanyInformationSixIllusionSevenFlavorPolitical PartiesHandfulThings That MatterInsurance CompaniesBagelsIllusion Of Choice Author:George Carlin
“I loved the illusion, the conviction, the desire - whatever you want to call it - that the words were agents rather than extensions of reality. That they made my life happen, rather than just recorded it happening.” WantMadeRealityHappensDesireHappeningsIllusionConvictionAgentsExtensionsLife Happens Author:Eavan Boland
“How has The Grand Illusion held up over the years? It is not enough to say that it has retained its power. Not only has the stature of the film remained undiminished by the passage of time (except in a few minor details), but the innovation, the audacity, and, for want of a better word, the modernity of the direction have acquired an even greater impact.” WantYearsEnoughFilmGreaterIllusionInnovationImpactDetailsPassagesMinorsModernityStatureAudacityPassage Of Time Author:Andre Bazin
“Certainly, possessions, money, and power can give a momentary thrill, the illusion of being happy, but they end up possessing us and making us always want to have more, never satisfied. ‘Put on Christ’ in your life, place your trust in him, and you will never be disappointed!” WantGivingEndsChristIllusionPossessionSatisfiedDisappointedThrillPossessingMomentaryMoney And Power Author:Pope Francis
“If you want to realize yourselves all your pet illusions must be unmasked.” IfsWantRealizingIllusionPet Author:Mina Loy
“Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts on saving the lives of those who are in such despair as to want to end them. It is a societal illusion that suicide is rare. It is not.” WantLittlesHas BeensEndsAmericaValuesMinutesDespairIllusionSuicideCommitSavingOur SocietyImpressedBipolarSeventeen Author:Kay Redfield Jamison
“I believe there should be no arbitrary date set for withdrawal and yet no permanent, unending deployment. No cut and run, yet measured progress in helping a people who want to be free without an illusion of overnight success.” PeopleWantShouldBelieveHelpingRunningI BelieveCuttingProgressIllusionPermanentArbitraryWithdrawalUnendingDeploymentOvernight Success Author:Rick Renzi
“I think I would rather live on the verge of falling and let my security be in the all-sufficiency of the grace of God than to live in some pietistic illusion of moral excellence. Not that I don't want to be morally excellent but my faith isn't in the idea that I'm more moral than anybody else. My faith is in the idea that God and His love are greater than whatever sins any of us commit.” ThinkingWantIdeasFallSinMoralGreaterGraceSecurityIllusionExcellenceCommitExcellentHis LoveGrace Of GodVergeSufficiencyMoral Excellence Author:Rich Mullins
“We have the illusion of freedom only because so few ever try to exercise it. Try it sometime. Try to save your home from the highway crowd, or to work a trade without the approval of the goons, or to open a little business without a permit, or to grow a crop without a quota, or to educate your child the way you want to, or to not have a child. We all have the freedom of a balloon floating in a pin factory.” WayWantTryingChildrenLittlesHomeGrowsExerciseIllusionOur ChildrenTradeCrowdsYour ChildrenPermitEducateFactoriesApprovalFloatingHighwaysPinsCropsBalloonsQuotaGoonsIllusion Of Freedom Author:Karl Hess
“It is difficult not to believe that the next year will be better than the old one! And this illusion is not wrong. Future is always good, no matter what happens. It will always give us what we need and what we want in secret. It will always bless us with right gifts. Thus in a deeper sense our belief in the New Year cannot deceive us.” WantNeedsGivingYearsBelieveMatterHappensNextBeliefDifficultSecretIllusionNo Matter WhatDeeperBlessNew YearDeceivingNext YearHappy New Year Author:Kersti Bergroth
“I don’t want to hang on and Cry over something so little, Like a springtime illusion that’ll disappear after I wake up” WantLittlesCryIllusionWake UpDisappearSpringtime Author:Lee Hyori