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1. “Why is it that even when we are enjoying music, for example, or a fine evening or conversation with people we like, why does it all seem to be a hint of some limitless happiness existing somewhere else rather than a real happiness, the kind, that is, we possess ourselves?”
Ivan Turgenev
Longing, Happiness, Illusion, Joy, Absence
3. “All smoke and steam... all seems for ever changing, on all sides new forms, phantoms flying after phantoms, while in reality it is all the same and the same again; everything hurrying, flying towards something, and everything vanishing without a trace, attaining to nothing.” Ivan Turgenev Change, Illusion, Time, Reality, Futility
8. “Reality is always separate from the ideal; but in Trinidad this fantasy is a form of masochism and is infinitely more cheating than the fantasy which makes the poor delight in films about rich or makes the English singer use an American accent.” V.S. Naipaul Reality, Fantasy, Society, Illusion, Culture
21. “I Have No Reason To Believe Humans Evolved With The Capability To Understand Their Reality. That Capability Was Not Important To Survival. When It Comes To Evolution, Any Illusion That Keeps Us Alive Long Enough To Procreate Is Good Enough.” Scott Adams Evolution, Survival, Reality, Psychology, Illusion
22. “We Humans Like To Think We Are Creatures Of Reason. We Aren’t. The Reality Is That We Make Our Decisions First And Rationalize Them Later... Your Illusion Of Being A Rational Person Is Supported By The Fact That Sometimes You Do Act Rationally.” Scott Adams Psychology, Decision-making, Rationality, Human-nature, Illusion
27. “All of this is mystification. The city itself lives on its own myth. Instead of waking up and silently existing, the city people prefer a stubborn and fabricated dream; they do not care to be a part of the night, or to be merely of the world. They have constructed a world outside the world, against the world, a world of mechanical fictions which contemn nature and seek only to use it up, thus preventing it from renewing itself and man.” Thomas Merton Modernity, Nature, Illusion, Society, Awareness
30. “It was hard and sour, but, as Poushkin said, the illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths. I saw a happy man, one whose dearest dream had come true, who had attained his goal in life, who had got what he wanted, and was pleased with his destiny and with himself.” Anton Chekhov Illusion, Happiness, Dreams, Destiny, Success
Illusion Quotes by Famous Authors
1. “Why is it that even when we are enjoying music, for example, or a fine evening or conversation with people we like, why does it all seem to be a hint of some limitless happiness existing somewhere else rather than a real happiness, the kind, that is, we possess ourselves?”
Ivan Turgenev Longing, Happiness, Illusion, Joy, Absence
3. “All smoke and steam... all seems for ever changing, on all sides new forms, phantoms flying after phantoms, while in reality it is all the same and the same again; everything hurrying, flying towards something, and everything vanishing without a trace, attaining to nothing.”
Ivan Turgenev Change, Illusion, Time, Reality, Futility
8. “Reality is always separate from the ideal; but in Trinidad this fantasy is a form of masochism and is infinitely more cheating than the fantasy which makes the poor delight in films about rich or makes the English singer use an American accent.”
V.S. Naipaul Reality, Fantasy, Society, Illusion, Culture
21. “I Have No Reason To Believe Humans Evolved With The Capability To Understand Their Reality. That Capability Was Not Important To Survival. When It Comes To Evolution, Any Illusion That Keeps Us Alive Long Enough To Procreate Is Good Enough.”
Scott Adams Evolution, Survival, Reality, Psychology, Illusion
22. “We Humans Like To Think We Are Creatures Of Reason. We Aren’t. The Reality Is That We Make Our Decisions First And Rationalize Them Later... Your Illusion Of Being A Rational Person Is Supported By The Fact That Sometimes You Do Act Rationally.”
Scott Adams Psychology, Decision-making, Rationality, Human-nature, Illusion
27. “All of this is mystification. The city itself lives on its own myth. Instead of waking up and silently existing, the city people prefer a stubborn and fabricated dream; they do not care to be a part of the night, or to be merely of the world. They have constructed a world outside the world, against the world, a world of mechanical fictions which contemn nature and seek only to use it up, thus preventing it from renewing itself and man.”
Thomas Merton Modernity, Nature, Illusion, Society, Awareness
30. “It was hard and sour, but, as Poushkin said, the illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths. I saw a happy man, one whose dearest dream had come true, who had attained his goal in life, who had got what he wanted, and was pleased with his destiny and with himself.”
Anton Chekhov Illusion, Happiness, Dreams, Destiny, Success
