But, as Einstein once said, “For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent. ”5
If an illusion makes a man happy, destroy that illusion! Because happiness must come via the truth!
You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in it.
When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.
Realize all this as illusion, realize that within the illusion is the Real.
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
In antihistory, time is an illusion.
It might seem that this knowledge is cold, devoid of emotion, empty. This is another illusion.
The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.
All things are accomplished by the meditative act of releasing illusions and simply becoming.
It's overwhelming. I feel as if I am living in an illusion a dream where all things are possible. Amazing things do happen I know but always to someone else always in some far off place and time.
The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.
The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.
By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors.
Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.
I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and I'm proud of it.
Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of ones own resources.
We have indeed been out in space, but some are under the illusion that we have been off Earth. In reality humans have never been off Earth. We have always been on a piece of Earth in space. We survive only as long as we can breathe the air of Earth, drink its waters, and be nourished by its foods. There is no indication that as humans we will ever live anywhere else in the universe. Place, too, is continuously being transformed but only within its own possibilities.
Magic lives in curves, not angles.
If someone wants to be a part of your life, They'll make an effort to be in it. So don't bother reserving a space in your heart for someone Who doesn't make an effort to stay. ERASING someone from your mind is so easy. . . But REMOVING the same person from your heart is ANOTHER STORY. Pin It Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes. . . just be an illusion.