Top Illusions Quotes
History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.
Howard Nemerov
Official truths are often powerful illusions.
John Pilger
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
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
Elizabeth Bowen
The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.
Antonio Gramsci
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History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.
Howard Nemerov 
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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
62% of people like this quote
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
Elizabeth Bowen
56% of people like this quote
The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.
Antonio Gramsci
56% of people like this quote
May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.
Ralph Thomas Walker
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The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
Robert Wilson Lynd
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I actually feel sorry for people who have a lot of illusions in their head about what gay is. I mean, I know some gay people who are really wonderful people.
Richard Chamberlain
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
Gertrude Stein
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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