Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
When real life is wanting one must create an illusion. It is better than nothing.[Когда нет настоящей жизни, то живут миражами. Все-таки лучше, чем ничего.]
The illusion that freedom is the prerogative of one’s own particular race is fairly widespread.
You mustn’t believe everything you see. The image of reality we perceive with our eyes is only an illusion, an optical effect. Light is a great liar.
The time comes when each one of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from its readiness to fit in with our instinctual wishful impulses.
No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.
Life is only one of the Great Illusions.
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.[Удивительное дело, какая полная бывает иллюзия того, что красота есть добро.]
I am growing up. I am losing some illusions, perhaps to acquire others.
Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
A poor girl may have an illusion that a prince will come and fetch her home. It is possible, some such cases have occurred. That the Messiah will come and found a golden age is much less probable.
