Gordon S. Wood Quotes

We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.

Truth is always a delusion.

Fantasies are not always what people think they are.

If you're deluded, you live in a place where there isn't everyone else's reality.

Illusions are hazardous, and so are disillusions.

What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?

Tonight, I've finally learned to tell fantasy from reality. And, knowing the difference, I choose fantasy.

A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions - Durzo Blint

I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.

Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.

People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening.

A lie to me is a dream that might come true.

I like the idea that we build up these walls or rules or laws to maintain our reality, and when they fall away, you're left with a whole bunch of illusions. Smoke and mirrors.

The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.

Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, and I don't believe in appearances at all.

The great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.

Reality has a way of intruding upon illusion.

It is not easy to distinguish reality from illusion, especially when one lives in a period of the great upheaval.

Perception is not always reality.