Quotes Tagged "illusions"

Is that like a dream journal? You ask. He nods. But these things really happen. He explains. Dreams really happen. You say.

If this is a dream, I hope I remember it.

Sometimes I have trouble telling my dreams from reality. The farther I travel from some experience, the more unsure I am that it actually happened. Just like a dream, the closer I am to it, the more sure I am that it's real.

An ever growing part of our major institutions’ functions is the cultivation and maintenance of three sets of illusions which turn the citizen into a client to be saved by experts...The first enslaving illusion is the idea that people are born to be consumers and that they can attain any of their goals by purchasing goods and services. This illusion is due to an educated blindness to the worth of use-values in the total economy. In none of the economic models serving as national guidelines is there a variable to account for non-marketable use-values any more than there is a variable for nature's perennial contribution.

I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong - I have audio illusions.

Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.

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

I'm an idealist without illusions.

I was fascinated with optical illusions.

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.