I believe in the practice and philosophy of what we have agreed to call magic, and what I must call the evocation of spirits, though I do not know what they are, in the power of creating magic illusions in the visions of truth in the depths of the minds when the eyes are closed.
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When you have examined all the illusions of life and know that there isn't any reality, but you nevertheless go on, then you are a mature human being. You accept the idea that it is all mask and illusion and that people are in disguise. You see the crumbling of reality and you accept it.
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It is natural for a man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut out eyes against a painful truth and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms into beasts.
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War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.
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During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.
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I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
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Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did. I have no illusions on this score, nor do I believe that any Asian nation or African nation, in the same state of dominance, and with the same system of colonial profit-amassing and plunder, would have behaved otherwise.
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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.
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The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
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How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!
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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 of the year.
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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.
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Spiritual evolution occurs as the result of removing obstacles and not actually acquiring anything new. Devotion enables surrender of the mind's vanities and cherished illusions so that it progressively becomes more free and more open to the light of Truth.
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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
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My importance to the world is relatively small. On the other hand, my importance to myself is tremendous. I am all I have to work with, to play with, to suffer and to enjoy. It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of, but of my own. I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the world around me, the better company I am for myself.
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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
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We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men about us are dupes...
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The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
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If I had the chance, love I would not hesitate To tell you all the things I never said before Don't tell me it's too late Cause I've relied on my illusions To keep me warm at night But I denied in my capacity to love I am willing, to give up this fight.
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Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.
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I'm an idealist without illusions.
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I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
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When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses.
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Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not love its unmaskers...
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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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.
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Life is full of obstacle illusions.
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Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of illusions.
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