I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
Paul Cezanne

I'm an idealist without illusions.
John F. Kennedy

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
Elizabeth Bowen

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
Sigmund Freud

Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.
Edwin Louis Cole

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
Gertrude Stein

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

It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.
Ellis Peters

Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.
John Langdon

Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.
Barbara Jordan

Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life.
Cat Stevens

May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.
Ralph Thomas Walker

Official truths are often powerful illusions.
John Pilger

Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
Joseph Roux

Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of real light (electric light) at crucial junctures in the room's composition.
Dan Flavin

Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.
Giotto di Bondone

Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many illusions about this, but I'm not cynical about it.
Bruce Sterling

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.
Henry R. Luce

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
Robert Wilson Lynd

The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.
Antonio Gramsci