Sentence examples for to be illusion from inspiring English sources

Of course, much of the change that alchemists believed was taking place we now know to be illusion -- the goose doesn't turn into serpents, nor is mercury transformed into gold.

What seems obvious within a given space -- the shortest distance between two points, the way one travels from one point to another, the limits on how far one can travel at all -- is shown to be illusion when standing outside the space.

Any appearance of insight into the nature of body gleaned from the imagination is as likely to be illusion as illumination.

Your finest dreams, he is saying, don't have to be illusions.

Unfortunately, finding causes is easier said than done, and causes we think we see can turn out to be illusions.

I treated these explanations as I did the mirror reflections: knowing them to be illusions, I still accepted them, allowing myself to be fooled.

… To determinists, choice is illusion.

Artistic progress has proved to be an illusion.

But real choice has turned out to be an illusion.

The socialist alternative to the market economy turned out to be an illusion.

The fragmentation means that safety is likely to be an illusion.