#illusion

The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#dull #going #great #idea #illusion

Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion. ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

#anyway #choose #equality #favor #freedom

I'm not under too much of an illusion of how smart or un-smart I am because filmmaking ultimately is about teamwork. ↗

— Guy Ritchie

#am #because #filmmaking #how #i

Illusory universality is the universality of the art of the culture industry, it is the universality of the homogeneous same, an art which no longer even promises happiness but only provides easy amusement as relief from labour. ↗

— J.M. Bernstein

#culture #illusion #industry #art

The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#illusions #courage

That's the beauty of it. Have you seen the contraptions these magicians build to accomplish the most mundane feats? They are a bunch of fish covered in feathers trying to convince the public they can fly, I am simply a bird in their midst. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#fish #illusions #magic #beauty

Beauty that pleases the eye is a frail, fleeting illusion. But that beauty capable of pleasing the heart can endure endlessly. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#attractiveness #beauty #enduring #illusion #richelle

You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past. ↗

— Richard Bach

#change

War is being reminded that you are completely at the mercy of death at every moment, without the illusion that you are not. Without the distractions that make life worth living. ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

#distractions #illusions #life #war #death

We all suffer from dreams ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#false-hope #illusions #suffering #death