Quotes with illusion

  • Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.
  • Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life, than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.
  • The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.
  • The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
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  • Camille Paglia Men are run ragged by female sexuality all their lives. From the beginning of his life to the end, no man ever fully commands any woman. It's an illusion. Men are pussy-whipped. And they know it. That's what the strip clubs are about; not woman as victim, not woman as slave, but woman as goddess.
    As quoted in Sexuality and Gender (2002)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Socrates A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • George Orwell Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Ben Katchor A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement.
    Ben Katchor
    American cartoonist and illustrator (1951 - )
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  • Georges Bernanos A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • Brad Bird Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.
    Brad Bird
    American animator, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • René Daumal Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
    René Daumal
    French writer, philosopher and poet (1908 - 1944)
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  • Stephen Vizinczey As both capitalist and communist states - not to mention the technological world - have evolved under the illusion that men purposefully built them, ideological optimism seeps into every niche of our lives. It is made worse by mass culture which feeds our
    Stephen Vizinczey
    Hungarian writer and critic (1933 - 2021)
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  • Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
    Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
    American journalist, essayist and memoirist (1934 - 2002)
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  • Harry A. Overstreet Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life, than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.
    Harry A. Overstreet
    American writer and lecturer (1875 - 1970)
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  • David Cronenberg Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.
    David Cronenberg
    Canadian movie maker (1943 - )
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  • George Eliot Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Buddha He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Judy Garland How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.
    Judy Garland
    American singer and actress (1922 - 1969)
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  • Sydney Smith I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • George Sand I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.
    George Sand
    French writer (1804 - 1876)
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  • Bethany McLean I'm not a big believer in the power of more regulation to fix things. I think it can almost be more dangerous because it provides the illusion that things have been fixed without the substance.
    Bethany McLean
    American journalist (1970 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Noam Chomsky If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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