Illusory Quotes - Page 4

• I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.

  Annie Lennox

  Thinking, Projection, Temporary

  "The Look: Annie Lennox". Interview with Harry Brant, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 23, 2014.

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• I urge people to be a scientist about what they want and ask themselves why they want it so badly. Perhaps they are chasing an illusory dream. But if you want to learn, to expand, to be of service, you will find a way.

  Agapi Stassinopoulos

  Dream, People, Want

  Fuente: www.psychologytoday.com

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• As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed...magnifice nt. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.

  Neil Armstrong

  Moon, Silver, Surface

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• La verdad es inseparable de la creencia ilusoria de que de las figuras de lo irreal un día, a pesar de todo, llegará la liberación real.

  Theodor Adorno

  Real, One Day, Belief

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• What I love in a woman is not what she is in and for herself, but the side of herself she turns towards me, what she is for me. I love her as character in our common love story. what wuld Hamlet be without the castle at Elsinore, without Ophelia, without all the concrete situations he goes through, what would he be without the text of his part? What would be left but an empty, dumb, illusory essence?

  Milan Kundera

  Character, Essence, Dumb

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• Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower. The criticism of religion disillusions man, so that he will think, act, and fashion his reality like a man who has discarded his illusions and regained his senses, so that he will move around himself as his own true Sun. Religion is only the illusory Sun which revolves around man as long as he does not revolve around himself.

  Karl Marx

  Fashion, Flower, Moving

  "Collected Works", v. 3, " Introduction to A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right" by Karl Marx, 1843.

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• One of the things he'd always loved about Clary was how easily caught up in her imagination she was, how easily she could wall herself away in illusory worlds of curses and princes and destiny and magic.

  Cassandra Clare

  Wall, Destiny, Imagination

  Cassandra Clare (2012). "Cassandra Clare: Serie Los instrumentos mortales (5 libros): Ciudad de huesos; Ciudad de cenizas; Ciudad de cristal; Ciudad de ángeles caídos, Ciudad de almas perdidas", p.1663, Simon and Schuster.

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• It’s all about control. Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to become master of your own destiny, you have more to learn. Parkinson’s is a perfect metaphor for lack of control. Every unwanted movement in my hand or arm, every twitch that I cannot anticipate or arrest, is a reminder that even in the domain of my own being, I am not calling the shots. I tried to exert control by drinking myself to a place of indifference, which just exacerbated the sense of miserable hopelessness.

  Michael J. Fox

  Drinking, Destiny, Hands

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• Era como si la desaparición del propietario hubiera dado al piso un vacío físico que antes no tenía. Al mismo tiempo tuvo la sensación de que no estaba solo. Harry creía en la existencia del alma. No es que fuera especialmente religioso como tal, pero era una cosa que siempre le llamaba la atención cuando veía un cadáver: el cuerpo estaba desprovisto de algo... la criatura se había ido, la luz se había ido, no había el resplandor ilusorio que tienen las estrellas quemadas hacía mucho tiempo. Al cuerpo le faltaba el alma y era la ausencia del alma lo que hacía creer a Harry.

  Jo Nesbo

  Religioso, Estrellas, Creer

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• The trouble with words is that they give us the illusory sense that we are making ourselves understood as well as understanding what others are saying. However, when we turn around and come face-to-face with our destiny, we discover that words are not enough.

  Paulo Coelho

  Destiny, Giving, Understanding

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• All choices are illusions, or if they are not illusions their strength is illusory, for one choice must contend with the choices of all the other men and women deciding anything in that moment.

  Kevin Powers

  Men, Choices, Illusion

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• Existence is illusory and it is eternal.

  Albert Camus

  Existence, Eternal

  "The Myth of Sisyphus". Book by Albert Camus, 1955.

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• Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon then from birth through social conditioning. They begin sensing that something is amiss, and start looking for answers. Inner knowledge and anomalous outer experiences show them a side of reality others are oblivious to, and so begins the journey of awakening. Each step of the journey is made by following the heart instead of the crowd, and by choosing knowledge over veils of ignorance.

  Henri Bergson

  Motivational, Spiritual, Philosophy

  "On Intuition vs. Intellect" by Henri Bergson, 1907.

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• Life is a very sad piece of buffoonery, because we have .. the need to fool ourselves continuously by the spontaneous creation of a reality .. which, from time to time, reveals itself to be vain and illusory.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Acceptance, Reality, Needs

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• Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew - not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. ... What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money. Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man - and turns them into commodities. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange. The chimerical nationality of the Jew is the nationality of the merchant, of the man of money in general.

  Karl Marx

  Real, Jealous, Men

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• Está claro que los hombres aceptan un dolor inmediato antes que un placer inmediato, pero sólo porque esperan un placer mayor en el futuro. A menudo el placer es ilusorio, pero su error de cálculo no refuta la regla.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  País, Niños, Dolor

  "La colección esencial de W. Somerset Maugham".

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• First of all there will appear to you, swifter than lightning, the luminous splendor of the colorless light of Emptiness, and that will surround you on all sides. ...Try to submerge yourself in that light, giving up all belief in a separate self, all attachment to your illusory ego.

  Buda Gautama

  Giving Up, Book, Light

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• En nuestro jardín cotidiano crecen el romero, el enebro, los helechos y los plátanos, perfectamente tangibles y visibles. Para estas plantas que mantienen con nosotros una relación ilusoria, que en nada altera su existencialidad, nosotros no somos más que un acontecimiento, un accidente, y nuestra presencia, que parece tan sólida, cargada de gravedad, no es para ellas más que un vacío momentáneo en movimiento por el aire. La realidad es una cualidad que les pertenece, y nosotros no podemos ejercer ningún derecho sobre ella.

  Leo Lionni

  Ejercicio, Realidad, Jardín

  Leo Lionni (1977). "Botánica paralela", Random House Inc.

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• And so began something that had not quite begun and would not soon end, with many people in many places moving off in directions and on missions which they all mistakenly thought they understood. That was just as well. The future was too fearful for contemplation, and beyond the expected, illusory finish lines were things fated by the decisions made this morning -- and, once decided, best unseen.

  Tom Clancy

  Morning, Moving, People

  Tom Clancy (2010). “Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan”, p.2389, Penguin

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• Parece que a la gente le cuesta mucho vivir con enigmas o dejarlos vivir, aunque uno pensaría que la vida está tan llena de enigmas como está que unas cuantas cosas más que no podamos responder no supondrían ninguna diferencia. Pero quizá sea precisamente esto lo que resulta tan insoportable, que hay cosas irracionales en nuestra propia psique que trastornan la mente consciente en sus ilusorias certezas al confrontarla con el enigma de su existencia.

  Carl Jung

  Pensamiento, Diferencias, Personas

  Carl Gustav Jung, Gerhard Adler (1976). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung”, Bollingen

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• In a deep metaphysical sense, all that is conditioned is illusory. All phenomena are literally 'appearances,' the outer masks in which the One Reality shows itself forth in our changing universe. The more 'material' and solid the appearance, the further is it from reality, and therefore the more illusory it is.

  Annie Besant

  Reality, Appearance, Mask

  Annie Besant (2009). “Death - and After?”, p.70, The Floating Press

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• Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

  René Descartes

  Joy, Sorrow, Genuine

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• La ficción de terror nos muestra que el control que creemos tener es puramente ilusorio, y que a cada momento nos tambaleamos entre el caos y el olvido.

  Clive Barker

  Vida, Creer, Miedo

  "Biografía/ Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• ...there is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Real, Hands, Ideas

  FaceBook post by Bret Easton Ellis from Jan 20, 2015

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• And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe.

  Antón Chéjov

  Wise, Book, Blessing

  Anton Chekhov (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)”, p.2020, Delphi Classics

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