Quotes with illusions

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  • Henry S. Haskins Man is liberated from his illusions to make room for a fresh set.
    Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 92
    Henry S. Haskins
    American stockbroker and man of letters (1875 - 1957)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Bruce Sterling Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many illusions about this, but I'm not cynical about it.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Antonio Gramsci The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.
    Antonio Gramsci
    Italian writer, politician and political scientist (1891 - 1937)
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  • Oscar Wilde The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Sigmund Freud The time comes when each one of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Bill Conti There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and aesthetic about composers who only write only for the music's sake.
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Walter Russell When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses.
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  • George Eliot For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities -a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces -a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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