Top 35 The Greatest Illusion Quotes
#1. Death is the greatest illusion of all.
Rajneesh
#2. The greatest illusion is that mankind has limitations.
Robert Monroe
#3. The greatest illusion of the abstract ego is that it can do anything to bring about radical improvement either in itself or in the world.
Alan W. Watts
#4. Perhaps the greatest illusion a writer ever creates is that his work is achieved without great effort or sacrifice.
David Alejandro Fearnhead
#5. I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us.
Eve Ensler
#6. Communism has been the greatest and bloodiest illusion that humanity ever bore
Gianfranco Fini
#7. The greatest deterrent to giving is the illusion that this earth is our home.
Randy Alcorn
#8. The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism.
Kevin McCloud
#9. What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
Pedro Calderon De La Barca
#10. Our greatest national illusion is that a healthy society can be organized around the single-minded pursuit of wealth.
Jeffrey D. Sachs
#11. The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance. It is the illusion of knowledge." Many
John C. Maxwell
#12. My instinct is to keep people guessing. I think as an actor your greatest strength is your versatility, I suppose. The blanker the canvas, the easier it is to project the illusion of a character onto it. I think there are many actors who do that very successfully.
Tom Hiddleston
#13. The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand immutable medium, always at hand, and proof against illusion and time, reflecting every object in its true shape and colour through all the fluctuation of things.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#14. To say 'I' where I' is not - is the greatest illusory attachment (raag).
Dada Bhagwan
#15. The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin
#16. The greatest tragedy of human existence is the illusion of separateness.
Albert Einstein
#17. [O]ne of the greatest difficulties encountered in bringing about favorable change is this almost inescapable illusion that there is a perduring, unique, simple existent self, [which is] in some strange fashion, the patient's, or the subject person's, private property.
Harry Stack Sullivan
#18. the studious examination of the past in the greatest of detail does not teach you much about the mind of History; it only gives you the illusion of understanding it.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#19. What is this life? A frenzy, an illusion,
A shadow, a delirium, a fiction.
The greatest good's but little, and this life
Is but a dream, and dreams are only dreams.
Pedro Calderon De La Barca
#21. The greatest enemy of progress is the illusion of knowledge.
John Young
#22. A dolphin's smile is the greatest deception. It creates the illusion that they're always happy.
Ric O'Barry
#23. The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by excluding moral truths and personal responsibility.
Pope John Paul II
#24. 'Grand Illusion' and 'Rules of the Game' are routinely included on lists of the greatest films, and deserve to be.
Roger Ebert
#25. God is the greatest illusionist of all time. It happens in a moment and it fades in another, before your very eyes. Ultimately you lose consciousness of yourself
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#26. Not knowing one's real Self is the greatest of maya (deceit; illusion). Once this ignorance is removed, the illusion departs.
Dada Bhagwan
#27. The illusion of choice is the greatest magic trick ever performed.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#28. The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin
#29. I am under no illusion that I will ever be the greatest opera composer in the world, with Wagner and Verdi and Strauss before me. I think my work could fit very nicely into musicals, though.
Rufus Wainwright
#30. Is love the ultimate illusion? Or is it what it seems to be
the greatest transformation of all? (Glyrenden)
Sharon Shinn
#31. The greatest triumph of Shaytan is the illusion that you are in control. He lurks on the forking paths, lying in wait for those who become overconfident and lose their way.
G. Willow Wilson
#32. It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming.
John Coleman
#33. Our greatest illusion is disillusion. We imagine that we are disillusioned with life, when the truth is that we have not even begun to live.
Paul Brunton
#34. Our greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin.
John Cudahy
#35. Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.
Scott Adams