Elbert Hubbard Quotes

But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

I believe in illusion - I don't believe in magic.

Man is firmly convinced that he is awake; in reality he is caught in a net of sleep and dreams which he has unconsciously woven himself.

For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

It is what men think that determines how they act

Ideas lead to actions.

We're all living in some state of illusion, even if modestly.

You can blame your whole confusion on the fact that you bought illusion.

Reason is the illusion of reality

The world being illusive, one must be deluded in some way if one is to triumph in it.

After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

You are never in love with anyone. You're only in love with your prejudiced and hopeful idea of that person.

Strange to dream in the right shape and build in the wrong shape, but maybe that is what we do every day, never believing that a dream could tell the truth.

Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!

You can't live without illusions, even if you must fight for them.

The American citizen lives in a world where fantasy is more real than reality, where the image has more dignity than its original. We hardly dare face our bewilderment, because our ambiguous experience is so pleasantly irridescent, and the solace of belief in contrived reality is so thoroughly real. We have become eager accessories to the great hoaxes of the age. These are the hoaxes we play on ourselves.

It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.

Illusions... are simple facts, but they have been created by the mind, by the spirit, and they are one of the justifications of the new spatial configuration.

Perspective - Use It or Lose It. If you turned to this page, you're forgetting that what is going on around you is not reality. Think about that.

The way we see things is the source of the way we think or the way we act

The idea of my life as a fairy tale is itself a fairy tale.

Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress.