Thomas Hardy Quotes

Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.

Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most 'familiarity' is meditated and delusive.

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

If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality.

Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.

The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish

There's so many different types of illusions; our lives are an illusion in a sense.

Things are not always as they seem.

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

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

But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most... he saw fireflies where there were none.

They who imagine truth in untruth and see untruth in truth will never arrive at the truth.

We are led to believe a lie When we see not through the eye.

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

Perception was easily accomplished, required little effort, and it never had to stand the test of reality.

There are many kinds of delusion.

The world is a lie...not you and me.

Devils so work that things which are not, appear to men as if they were real.

Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived.

There are conditions worse than being unable to see, and that is imagining one sees.