(329 quotes found)
“We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.”
Iris Murdoch
“Illusion is the first of the pleasures”
Voltaire
“What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness! A beautiful woman utters absurdities: we listen, and we hear not the absurdities but wise thoughts”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.”
Sigmund Freud
“I'm an idealist without illusions.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes of our lives, which is inaccessible to the fantasies of our own mind or the brutalities of our own will.”
Thomas Merton
“We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
“Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.”
Javan
“Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.”
Charles M. Schulz
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