#illusion

Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality. ↗

— Jacque Fresco

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The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state of affairs: enantiodromia, or the Greek notion of things turning into their opposite. ↗

— James Hillman

#behind #being #big #capacity #current

In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their present, under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their departure. ↗

— King Hussein I

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Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy. ↗

— Grace Jones

#fantasy #illusion #like #look #models

Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#america #common #community #destiny #difficult

It's really easy to get colors right. It's really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a color but it's also an illusion. ↗

— Donna Karan

#black #certainly #color #colors #easy

I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there. ↗

— David Knopfler

#behind #best #craft #create #curtain

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion. ↗

— Arthur Koestler

#illusion #more #nothing #sad #than

I think that the Oscar gives you some kind of guts or something, it gives you the illusion that you can do it. It's good for business. ↗

— Benicio Del Toro

#gives #good #guts #i #i think

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered. ↗

— Stanley Kubrick

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