#illusions

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. ↗

— Mark Twain

#exist #gone #illusions #live #may

I'd always wanted to do these types of things - pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it. ↗

— David Blaine

#could #doing #i #illusions #magic

I can imagine that the Iraqis undertake the destruction out of fear. If they had denied it, if they had said no, that certainly would have played into the hands of those that would like to take armed action immediately. I have no illusions in that regard. ↗

— Hans Blix

#armed #certainly #denied #destruction #fear

Words are illusions. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#words

Subhuti, someone might fill innumerable worlds with the seven treasures and give all away in gifts of alms, but if any good man or any good woman awakens the thought of Enlightenment and takes even only four lines from this Discourse, reciting, using, receiving, retaining and spreading them abroad and explaining them for the benefit of others, it will be far more meritorious. Now in what manner may he explain them to others? By detachment from appearances-abiding in Real Truth. -So I tell you- Thus shall you think of all this fleeting world: A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream; A flash of lightening in a summer cloud, A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream. When Buddha finished this Discourse the venerable Subhuti, together with the bhikshus, bhikshunis, lay-brothers and sisters, and the whole realms of Gods, Men and Titans, were filled with joy by His teaching, and, taking it sincerely to heart they went their ways. ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#detachment #diamond-sutra #illusions #inspirational #life

Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#greatness #illusions #same #visions

Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of real light (electric light) at crucial junctures in the room's composition. ↗

— Dan Flavin

#broken #composition #could #crucial #down

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

I'm an idealist without illusions. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#idealist #illusions #without

The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#illusions #courage