236 Quotes About Illusions

But with me, you are never just a spring faerie.

What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms—in short, a sum of human relations which have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically, and which after long use seem firm, canonical, and obligatory to a people: truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are; metaphors which are worn out and without sensuous power; coins which have lost their pictures and now matter only as metal, no longer as coins.

Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours.

Are designations congruent with things? Is language the adequate expression of all realities?It is only by means of forgetfulness that man can ever reach the point of fancying himself to possess a "truth" of the grade just indicated. If he will not be satisfied with truth in the form of tautology, that is to say, if he will not be content with empty husks, then he will always exchange truths for illusions.

Den som har visjoner, bør oppsøke lege.

the paradox is that God must destroy in us, all illusions of righteousness before he can make us righteous

It‘s interesting, as I let go of illusions I find what I was looking for in them.

Good and bad are illusions. What exists is either the presence of empathy or the lack of it. I think this should become the new, clear definition of how we see people. No more "good" and no more "bad". Those terms are highly subjective.

Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.