#illusion

Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#based #cannot #conduct #decision #fate

The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion. ↗

— Craig Bruce

#illusion #real #world

Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality. ↗

— Herman Wouk

#bred #gap #illusion #reality #wish

Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death. ↗

— Alexander Chase

#air travel #between #death #exhilarating #fact

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#always #destroy #hardly #i #illusions

There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#disillusionment #having #illusion #moment #moments

Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#confuse #illusion #only #psychotics #reality

When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#buddhist #catholicism #closer #committed #disillusioned

In the fire of his embrace, all that was her ceased to exist. Only what was God remained. I am. The cloisterbell, the voice of Christ. He spoke again: I am. She tried to obey but was frozen in beauty, like a fly trapped in amber. She could not move. Nothing exists apart from me. Self had been an illusion, a dream. God dreaming. ↗

— Mark Salzman

#self-is-an-illusion #the-voice-of-god #beauty

These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again. ↗

— John Lennon

#again #artists #cannot #created #critics