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• How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.

  Hanif Kureishi

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Illusions

• The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Topics in Attitude

  Tags in Illusions, Feeling, Maturity, Happiness

• I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

  Unknown

  Topics in Joy

  Tags in Illusions, Philosophy

• One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.

  Carl Sagan

  Topics in Power, Truth

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Illusions, School, Lying

• Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of real light (electric light) at crucial junctures in the room’s composition.

  Dan Flavin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Illusions
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  An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.

  Arthur Miller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Exhausted, Illusions

• It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

  Gertrude Stein

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Natural, Illusions, Hope

• I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to them.

  Conrad Veidt

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Public, Illusions, Forget

• Because our generation has waited so long to have babies, we feel we’ve ‘discovered’ something that women have been doing for thousands of years. I have no illusions that I will be in the same situation as the average working mother. I’m not trying to prove anything – I just want to have kids.

  Jane Pauley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Illusions, Babies

• It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.

  Edith Pargeter

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Man, Illusions

• Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Topics in Vision

  Tags in Grandeur, Illusions, Greatness

• Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Illusions, Home, Decorate

• I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Illusions, Turned, Days

• All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can’t.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Illusions, Women, Marriage, Men

• As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be.

  Saul Alinsky

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Illusions, Organize, Reality

• A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Illusions, Error, Judgment

• The contemplation of things as they are, without substitution or imposture, without error or confusion, is in itself a nobler thing than a whole harvest of invention.

  Francis Bacon

  Topics in Confusion, Mistake, Truth

  Tags in Illusions, Observation, Understanding, Imagination

• Our fears are more numerous than our dangers, and we suffer more in our imagination than in reality.

  Seneca the Younger

  Topics in Fear, Suffering

  Tags in Illusions, Imagination

• It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

  Lillian Florence Hellman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Illusions, Weakness, Strength

• For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.

  Donald Williams

  Topics in Humanity, Vision

  Tags in Illusions, Diversity, Globalism, Earth