We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
Illusions Quotes
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
I must say that the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth. And that’s what I’m saying: that we’re all built with illusions. And they break.
Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.
But time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake.
If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
Official truths are often powerful illusions.
