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Illusion Quotes

"What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness."
Leo Tolstoy
"Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything."
Stephen Colbert
"Delusion is important to success."
John waters
"How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child"
Judy Garland
"The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion"
Frank Zappa
"None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not"
Baruch Spinoza
"The contradiction between free will and scientific determinism is just an illusion"
Yuval Noah Harari
"A straight oar looks bent in the water."
Michel de Montaigne
"[...] We have made the world a lie."
Ta Nehisi Coates
"Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?"
Groucho Marx
"What is hardest about reality is how much we have to pretend."
Alain de Botton
"The greatest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."
George Bernard Shaw
"No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth."
Charles Spurgeon
"Of all the things which are no longer what they seem"
Herman Melville
"Power resides where men believe it resides. It's a trick. A shadow on the wall"
George R.R. Martin
"It is known that despite seeing indications that reality is where we exist, it is also clear that not everything here makes sense in a linear fashion with perfect logic."
Douglas Adams
"Most everything you think you know about me is nothing"
Haruki Murakami
"Don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one"
Haruki Murakami
"Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it."
Benjamin Franklin
"Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants exactly what he is supposed to want"
Erich Fromm
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