The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Sin creates the illusion of freedom. In the end it fools us into seeking freedom from God rather than finding freedom in… — Erwin McManus Copy Share Image
I don't live under the illusion we don't need a military to protect this country. — Ron White Copy Share Image
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“As much longing there is for the worldly pleasure of five senses, that much less is the spiritual development.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
My point was that it's hard to make good films, but I'm not under any illusion that you do all the time. — John Cusack Copy Share Image
No doubt the truth is hard to come by for those who do not like the sound of it - dreams and… — Anatoli Granovsky Copy Share Image
The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can't even comprehend it. It's such an illusion, it's… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Soup not only warms you and is easy to swallow and to digest, it also creates the illusion in the back of… — Marlene Dietrich Copy Share Image
It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in… — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch;… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but the illusion of… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Are all this evils as necessary as it is non-Knowledge to us in order to get to know and to have this… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
The human phenomenon is but the sum Of densely coiled layers of illusion Each of which winds itself on the supreme insanity… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
I think horror should have occult elements, not as its subject but as its ambition. It is a machine that destroys illusion.… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
I wanted to say something different: the pictures are also a leave-taking, in several respects. Factually: these specific persons are dead; as… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Cops never took anything on faith, and disbelieved every story that was told them on principle until and unless they could confirm… — Dana Stabenow Copy Share Image
The phrase "It's absolutely the same with me, I..." seems to be an approving echo, a way of continuing the other's thought,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The machine seemed to understand time and space, but it didn’t, not as we do. We are analog, fluid, swimming in a… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
Truth is not something you can appropriate easily and quickly. You certainly cannot sleep or dream yourself to the truth. No, you… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The misconception that there is serious disagreement among scientists about global warming is actually an illusion that has been deliberately fostered by… — Al Gore Copy Share Image