The highest problem of every art is, by means of appearances, to produce the illusion of a loftier reality — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“When you release the illusion of control, you begin an effortless free-fall toward a grand reunion with your original self.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security. — Hal Sparks Copy Share Image
The whole thing's illusion, [Jacob], and there's nothing wrong with that. It's what people want from us. It's what they expect. — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
Oneness with God is not a dream, it is the only reality. Everything else is an illusion — E'yen A. Gardner Copy Share Image
Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. — Charles Addams Copy Share Image
Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
If ever a painter wrought a miracle of illusion with brush and pigment that painter was Velazquez in his Las Meninas, at… — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
“There were endless bodies of passengers wearing different colors of clothes, carrying handbags, and electronic devices of different sizes and shapes, giving… — Louis Yako Copy Share Image
“As long as one is ruled by illusion, one’s thinking process is also illusory and that is nothing but misery. In Gnanis’… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The human being taken in his profound reality as well as in his great tension of becoming is a divided being, a… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The science-denial machinery is a serious adversary, and it has a big advantage over real science: it does not need to win… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
A lot of the demonstrations that I do, when I get inside peoples minds, is understanding human behavior and understanding how people… — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
The desire and drive to create this illusion of three-dimensional space is something that is true about every kind of film because… — Rob Minkoff Copy Share Image
If you look at history, even recent history, you see that there is indeed progress. . . . Over time, the cycle… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“In Advaita Vedanta, and in many other ancient wisdom traditions, the world is said to be an illusion. This illusion is commonly… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Deductivism in mathematical literature and inductivism in scientific papers are simply the postures we choose to be seen in when the curtain… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
“Whenever you look to your desires and feel a high level of illusions of peace or pleasure, it's not reality. If you… — Munir Ahmad Copy Share Image
“ Refutation of the Assertion That the (Phenomenal) Appearances Are Mind Although forms appear to the mind, the (objective) appearances are not… — Longchen Rabjam Copy Share Image
I am the beast with a contorted grin, contracting down to illusion and dilating toward infinity, both growing and dying, delightfully suspended… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Because these consequences are distributed globally, the problem masquerades as a distraction. Because the length of time between causes and consequences stretches… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark. Nobody knows what is going… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“I'm an accident. I'm a lie. And my life depends on maintaining the illusion.” — Victoria Aveyard Copy Share Image
One lie leads to another & before you know it your are living in a world of illusion with no way forwards. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the greatest illusion a writer ever creates is that his work is achieved without great effort or sacrifice. ” — David Alejandro Fearnhead Copy Share Image
We must shed the illusion that we can deliberately 'create the future of mankind' — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
This was no ordinary UFO. Scores of people saw it. It was no illusion, no deception, no imagination. — Azim Daudpota Copy Share Image
Laugh with people laughing, cry with people crying, but don't fall into the river of world illusion. Stay on the banks. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The trick was looking past the illusion, because the exit was never as far away as it seemed. — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
Love is supposed to bring you peace and happiness. If you are not feeling this in a relationship, you are living an… — Leon Brown Copy Share Image
The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“The world is not something to be understood. It is vanity, illusion to even try.” — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
What can we say to people who think that dreams are the real world and this one is an illusion. Perhaps they're… — Lothaire Bluteau Copy Share Image
That time is important. It gives a comforting illusion of permanence not found in running by the mile. — Joe Henderson Copy Share Image
One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“That which is actually there cannot be seen and that which is not there is seen, that is called Moha (illusory attachment)!” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image