Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde



Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams



Inflation: everyone's illusion of wealth - Unknown



Noise creates illusions. Silence brings truth. - Maxime Lagace



Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. - Ludwig Borne



What a strange illusion to suppose that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy



Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein



Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno



If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion. - Noam Chomsky



Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. - Minna Antrim



Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years. - Sheila Ballantyne



Our separation from each other is an optical illusion of consciousness. - Albert Einstein



Never say never because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion. - Michael Jordan



A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last. - Helen Rowland



Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. - Morticia Addams



The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw



Like the cosmetics industry, the securities business is engaged in selling illusion. - Paul Samuelson



The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin



Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. - Scott Adams



Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment. - Isabel Allende



We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. - Irish Murdoch



The illusion that the times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages. - Horace Greeley



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



What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. - Woody Allen



Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche



Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. - Simone Weil



We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die. - W H Auden



Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. - Tom Robbins



