Destroy The Illusion Quotes

#1. The experience of love and the experience of death destroy the illusion of our self-sufficiency. The two are closely connected, and to become fully human we must experience both of them.

David Steindl-Rast

#2. The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.

Gustave Le Bon

#3. Words are powerful. Words make a difference. They can create and destroy. They can open doors and close doors. Words can create illusion or magic, love or destruction. ... All those things.

R.M. Engelhardt

#4. We often destroy the world's real wealth to create an illusion of wealth, confusing symbol and substance.

Susan Wiggs

#5. Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other.

Emile M. Cioran

#6. If an illusion makes a man happy, destroy that illusion! Because happiness must come via the truth!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. We favor the simple expression of the complex thought. We are for the large shape because it has the impact of the unequivocal. We wish to reassert the picture plane. We are for flat forms because they destroy illusion and reveal truth.

Mark Rothko

#8. Rulers who destroy men's freedom commonly begin by trying to retain its forms ... They cherish the illusion that they can combine the prerogatives of absolute power with the moral authority that comes from popular assent.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#9. Fear is an illusion that you can destroy with the power of hope.

Ali Parker

#10. Another great illusion that woman must ... destroy .. is the impurity of sex, the realisation in defiance of superstition that there is nothing impure in sex - except in the mental attitude toward it ...

Mina Loy