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
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
“There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by love.” — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
To a father who loves his children victor has no charms. When the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Some are masters of illusions, some are ministers of trade, all under the same delusion, all their beds unmade. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
You know how in football, guys throw defenses, and the defense throws you a look, but the look is not really what… — Rick Ross Copy Share Image
After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact,… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
When I think about popular culture, I can't help but think that we're living in the age of loneliness. There's this illusion… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
“When we crumble under the exorbitant weight of conspicuous commodities and the material pressure in a universe of illusion, life may become… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
The Art Magicke has rules. It means I have to teach you all my tricks. All the substitutions, the replications, the illusions.… — Catherine Fisher Copy Share Image
Reincarnation is not necessarily linear. Sometimes people actually become more immersed in darkness or illusion than they were in previous lifetimes. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think illusion is one of the most interesting things that I've found to think about. Just look at yesterday, and what… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“Adornment, exoticism, affectation are all willed decadent strategies meant to pervert the texts they made. Decadent texts often live in their descriptive… — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“That illusion—as such a point of view was, in due course, to appear—was closely related to another belief: that existence fans out… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“To get from the tangible to the intangible (which mature artists in any medium claim as part of their task) a paradox… — Minor White Copy Share Image
How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you been denied--or,… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
What is illusion? M.: To whom is the illusion? Find it out. Then illusion will vanish. Generally people want to know about… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Zen, like life, defies exact definition, but its essence is the experience, moment by moment, of our own existence -- a natural,… — David Fontana Copy Share Image
Liberalism makes this mistake in regard to private property and Marxism makes it in regard to socialized property... The Marxist illusion is… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Some popular quotations smell of airless closets. They exhale the stale imagination of the intellectual lower middle class. "Suspension of disbelief" has… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
There's this illusion that homosexuals have sex and heterosexuals fall in love. That's completely untrue. Everybody wants to be loved. — Boy George Copy Share Image
Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. — Charles Addams 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
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
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
“Some people aren’t really light-teethed; they’re merely dark-skinned.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the universe is a big fat consciousness and the matter is just an illusion.” — Erol Ozan Copy Share Image
The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Because there is a word for perfection, people will always imagine that they know it.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Happiness is just an illusion of when things are getting a little less fucked up. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no more dangerous illusion than the fancies by which people try to avoid illusion. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
“It's easier to believe the most outlandish lie that confirms what you suspect than the most obvious truth that denies it.” — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image