Illusion

(86 votes)   The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life.

Sigmund Freud
1856-1939, Austrian Physician - Founder of Psychoanalysis

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(85 votes)   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
1819-1880, British Novelist

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(84 votes)   It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(83 votes)   Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
1922-, American Novelist

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(76 votes)   Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
1741-1794, French Writer, Journalist, Playwright

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(69 votes)   What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death.

William Blake
1757-1827, British Poet, Painter

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(65 votes)   A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality.

Christian Nevell Bovee
1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer

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(63 votes)   For me, it is as though at every moment the actual world had completely lost its actuality. As though there was nothing there; as though there were no foundations for anything or as though it escaped us. Only one thing, however, is vividly present: the constant tearing of the veil of appearances; the constant destruction of everything in construction. Nothing holds together, everything falls apart.

Eugene Ionesco
1912-, Romanian-born French Playwright

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(57 votes)   Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1819-1892, American Poet

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(55 votes)   Disillusion is a natural stage that follows the holding of an illusion.

Susan Shaughnessy

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(55 votes)   People who have realized that this is a dream imagine that it is easy to wake up, and are angry with those who continue sleeping, not considering that the whole world that environs them does not permit them to wake. Life proceeds as a series of optical illusions, artificial needs and imaginary sensations.

Alexander Herzen
1812-1870, Russian Journalist, Political Thinker

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(55 votes)   The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(54 votes)   Oh, how powerfully the magnet of illusion attracts.

Gutzkow

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(52 votes)   Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.

E. R. Beadle

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(38 votes)   The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.

Yasutani Roshi

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