Quotes about Illusion
because only love is real. It is our function to see through the illusion of guilt, to the innocence that lies beyond. "To forgive is merely to remember only the loving thoughts you gave in the past, and those that were given you. All
— Marianne Williamson
True forgiveness is not a lack of discernment or the product of fuzzy thinking. It is a "selective remembering." We choose to remember the love we experienced, and to let go of the rest as the illusion it really was.
— Marianne Williamson
What that means is this: Love is real. It's an eternal creation and nothing can destroy it. Anything that isn't love is an illusion. Remember this, and you'll be at peace.
— Marianne Williamson
many believers naively assume that real Christianity is alive and well and respected by the majority of our people. Brace yourself. It's an illusion.
— Mark Driscoll
Nothing is what rocks dream about
— Aristotle
Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.
— Arthur C. Clarke
you know a conjurer gets no credit when once he has explained his trick and if I show too much of my method of working, you will come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all. -Sherlock Holmes
— Arthur Conan Doyle
There are two ways to be fooled: one is to believe what isn't true, the other is to refuse to believe what is true." Another translation says:"There are two ways to be fooled: one is to believe what isn't so; the other is to refuse to believe what is so.
— Soren Kierkegaard
I perceive that we inhabitants of New England live this mean life that we do because our vision does not penetrate the surface ofthings. We think that that is which appears to be.
— Henry David Thoreau
An awful realization that I have been fooling myself all my life thinking there was a next thing to do to keep the show going and actually I'm just a sick clown and so is everybody else...
— Jack Kerouac
But all was false and hollow; through his tongue dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear the better reason.
— John Milton
Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.
— John Milton