Quotes with illusion

Quotes 81 till 91 of 91.

• What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

  Pedro Calderón de la Barca
  Spanish playwright (1600 - 1681)
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• What of Art?
  - It is a malady.
  Love?
  - An Illusion.
  Religion?
  - The fashionable substitute for Belief.
  You are a sceptic.
  - Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
  What are you?
  - To define is to limit.

  Oscar Wilde
  Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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• Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow.

  Luigi Pirandello
  Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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• When animus and anima meet, the animus draws his sword of power and the anima ejects her poison of illusion and seduction. The outcome need not always be negative, since the two are equally likely to fall in love (a special instance of love at first sight).

  Aion (1951)

  Carl Gustav Jung
  Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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• When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing.

  Bernard M. Baruch
  American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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• When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

  Gary Zukav
   
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• Whenever I see a forecast written out to two decimal places, I cannot help but wonder if there is a misunderstanding of the limitations of the data, and an illusion of precision.

  Barry Ritholtz
  American author and newspaper columnist
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• You are traveling and see these people shooting the entire experience of going through a city, and maybe in the back of their minds they sustain the illusion that they will edit it all, but I don't think that's it.

  Atom Egoyan
  Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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• You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

  Luigi Pirandello
  Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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• Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.

  Andre Breton
  French writer (1896 - 1966)
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• 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.

  Brooks Atkinson
  American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• misunderstanding
• beauticians
• understands
• limitations
• experience
• seduction

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