“In this world that is an illusion, every emotion is real. In this world that is real, every truth is illusory.” — Anand Neelakantan Copy Share Image
The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion. — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
“Looking around there is nothing but illusion Everything is drowned in the oceans of illusion” — Rixa White Copy Share Image
I had to learn how to dress and create an optical illusion where you're more slender. — Lydia Hearst Copy Share Image
Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are… — Esther Meynell Copy Share Image
“do not let your life become a compelling illusion of reality that feels like it” — F.J. Nanic Copy Share Image
“Give royal treatment to your original magic effects, because one of the effects might make you the king of magic.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Our democratic societies are in danger. In allowing ourselves to be infiltrated by fear, to be blinded by the passion of identity,… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Owning things is an obsession in our culture. If we own it, we feel we can control it; and if we control… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Pain destroys the illusions of false, that is, elitist pleasures. It burns from the inside out. It, therefore, sensitizes us to what… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
The drama of the sky dance is enacted nightly on hundreds of farms, the owners of which sigh for entertainment, but harbor… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The self is fundamentally an illusion arising as a reflection of the soul in matter, much as a clear lake at midnight… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
We expect more from technology and less from each other. We create technology to provide the illusion of companionship without the demands… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“The sacred stillness of your brilliant heart has as the myriad wonders masqueraded. But if you knew this secret from the start,… — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
It begins with skepticism. The history of human folly, and our own susceptibility to illusions and fallacies, tell us that men and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Ask if you would like to,’ he said, smiling, ‘Or if you prefer, we could just sit.’ ‘But I guess you’re not… — Elizabeth Tebby Germaine Copy Share Image
Every human being relies on and is bounded by his knowledge and experience to live. This is what we call “reality”. However,… — Masashi Kishimoto Copy Share Image
My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person. People are only glamorous if you… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, our… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“The body, whether it be human, mammal or insect, is nothing more than a machine designed as a vehicle intended to be… — Alejandro C. Estrada Copy Share Image
You don't need as much as some of the other artists but you do sing with your eyes close and it gives… — Maxine Powell Copy Share Image
In this world of illusion, where at the end of the examination, we find everything to be of little importance, of little… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
