<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Illusion - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63852]]></link><description><![CDATA[A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20467]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is our illusions that create the world ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20468]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is our illusions that create the world]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20470]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts... For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20471]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20472]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20474]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20477]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20478]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman should be an illusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20479]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman should be an illusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20481]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Illusion is the first of all pleasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Illusion is the first of all pleasures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Illusion is the first of the pleasures ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Illusion is the first of the pleasures]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20466</guid></item></channel></rss>