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.
The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo around what is written can give the illusion that you are reading also what is not written.
Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life
I am here to tell you there's nothing in people knowing you. There's actually a loss in that! Really, the reward in life is genuinely the day of work you have. It's not the name you're making for yourself or the clicks and likes - it's such an illusion.
Originality is merely an illusion.
There's nothing to fear but fear itself. It's an illusion of fear. Fear is an illusion. If you gonna die, you gonna die anyway; it's not something to fear, fear is not gonna help.
What is illusion? M. : To whom is the illusion? Find it out. Then illusion will vanish. Generally people want to know about illusion and do not examine to whom it is. It is foolish. Illusion is outside and unknown. But the seeker is considered to be known and is inside. Find out what is immediate, intimate, instead of trying to find out what is distant and unknown.
I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler.
I thought poetry could change everything, could change history and could humanize, and I think that the illusion is very necessary to push poets to be involved and to believe, but now I think that poetry changes only the poet.
It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, till she transforms us into beasts.
All writers know that on some golden mornings they are touched by the wand; they are on intimate terms with poetry and cosmic truth. I have experienced these moments myself. Their lesson is simple: It's a total illusion. And the danger in the illusion is that you will wait for those moments.
I'd always wanted to do these types of things - pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it.
. . . We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.
God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with.
The poetry of fashion lies in the creation of illusion
Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.
Illusions are hazardous, and so are disillusions.
Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.
Liberate yourself from the illusion of culture. Take responsibility for what you think and what you do.
It is the illusion of knowledge, not ignorance, that keeps one from growing.