People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.Albert Einstein
All those who run away to ashrams, thinking they are doing something great are just performing daily chores there - cooking, gardening etc. After all, the place has to be run.Tanushree Dutta
When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you... Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.Ernest Hemingway
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.Iris Murdoch
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.Daniel J. Boorstin
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.Albert Einstein
Any titles, money, or privilege you inherit are actually hindrances. They delude you into believing you are owed respect.Robert Greene
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.Friedrich Nietzsche
A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.Alan Watts
The curtain of the universe is moth-eaten, and through its holes we see nothing, now, but masks and ghosts...Arthur Machen
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.Saul Bellow