Illusion
An unreal image presented to the bodily or mental vision; a deceptive appearance; a false show; mockery; hallucination.
Hence: Anything agreeably fascinating and charning; enchantment; witchery; glamour.
A sensation originated by some external object, but so modified as in any way to lead to an erroneous perception; as when the rolling of a wagon is mistaken for thunder.
A plain, delicate lace, usually of silk, used for veils, scarfs, dresses, etc.
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Illusion Quotations
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Oscar Wilde
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
Friedrich Nietzsche
A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
Socrates
There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
George Washington
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Voltaire
Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.
Voltaire
Illusion Translations
illusion in Danish is indbildning
illusion in Dutch is drogbeeld, begoocheling, illusie
illusion in French is illusion
illusion in Italian is illusione
illusion in Norwegian is villfarelse, illusjon
illusion in Swedish is inbillning, synvilla
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