“What we usually think of as the self is very temporal and an illusion.” — Gyomay M. Kubose Copy Share Image
“We can create the world where we are with the ones we want to love so easily.” — Taylor Nadeau Copy Share Image
My last kids were born when I was in my forties, so I still had little kids around me, which gave me… — Frank Langella Copy Share Image
Corporate principles and military principles are basically the same. Insulation. Illusion. Hype. Activity. — Tarun J. Tejpal Copy Share Image
“Nothing blinks out, nothing ends. Everything exists, always exists. Life is but a dream, Shannon. Self is the only illusion.” — Tom Sweterlitsch Copy Share Image
“If myths, dreams and illusion are to be possible, the apparent and the real must remain ambiguous in the subject as in… — Maurice Merleau Ponty Copy Share Image
And I didn't know I loved her till I'd dreamt of her. I didn't know it was the real thing until an… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
Life is beautiful. Really, it is. Full of beauty and illusions. Life is great. Without it, you'd be dead. — Harmony Korine Copy Share Image
“We also use that limitation purposely as a tool to understand things, to form the illusion of mastery and control over a… — Mark Burgess Copy Share Image
It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Miracles occur when two people realize that there is no separation between them. In that moment, love flows freely and their true… — Elizabeth Herrera Copy Share Image
Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
I'm not a big believer in the power of more regulation to fix things. I think it can almost be more dangerous… — Bethany McLean Copy Share Image
You'd think people would realize they're bad at multitasking and would quit. But a cognitive illusion sets in, fueled in part by… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
“The modern scientist attempts to step outside of himself in order to observe himself, an attempt that is always doomed to failure.… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
It's only illusions that destroy us. It's illusions that convince us that we can't. It's the illusions of the transient that tell… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and systematic. They, too, have a… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
You’ll join me sooner than you know in a place with . . . no illusions, where the truth is the only… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“We cannot learn if we are stuck in our mind’s conditioned way of thinking. We must be open to discovering the Truth,… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
How does it feel? I feels exactly like one of those dreams in which you suddenly realize that you have to take… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
My hunch, for what it's worth, is that most of us probably find it much, much harder than we realize to really… — Decca Aitkenhead Copy Share Image
The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
As we increasingly become aware of the One Life breathing in each brother form of life, we learn the meaning of compassion,… — Christmas Humphreys Copy Share Image
There are no steps to self-realization. There is nothing gradual about it. It happens suddenly and is irreversible. You rotate into a… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
“The present is the closest that you will ever get to the future.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Power could be an illusion of perception. Even within yourself.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image