Beauty is the result of clarity and system and not of optical illusion. — Henry van de Velde Copy Share Image
The Soviet State does not need either illusions or camouflage. It can claim only that world authority which is confirmed by the… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action. — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
“This is the unforgiving light of the morning, time to drop the illusion.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Magicians are the people who began to use film as an illusion on stage. — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
You have no fixed self. This is only an illusion that causes you to feel pain and suffering. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
"Fun to drive" is a pleasant illusion in most places robustly inhabited where "safe to drive" makes much more sense. — Warren Brown Copy Share Image
And the whole schtick of the psychedelic experience, I think, is reclaim immediate experience, realize that you out vote all parliaments, police… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It was all a lie, it all stank, stank of lies, it all gave the illusion of meaning and happiness and beauty,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Once you empower people and say,' Here you are, now you get to dream the great dream of becoming a full citizen… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
What kind of god is it that some human brain can shatter the illusions that have been built up around such a… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“Hence we may at once dismiss as easily foreseen but futile objection, “that by our admitting the ideality of space and of… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution from… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I discovered the miracle that all things that sound are music, including the dishes and silverware in the dishwasher, as long as… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
When doing a fantasy show - or a show with fantasy elements - the more you can anchor an effect to reality,… — Jeremy Podeswa Copy Share Image
St. Teresa of Avila wrote: 'All difficulties in prayer can be traced to one cause: praying as if God were absent.' This… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
Spirituality does not require that you work hard toward achieving a result in the future as much as it requires you to… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“Things aren't like this," he kept repeating. "It shouldn't be this way." As if he had access to some other plane of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“As I went over to say good-bye I saw that an expression of bewilderment had come back into Gatsby’s face, as though… — F Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“Knowing, or thinking we know, can lead to many commotions. What we believe, we know, is maybe a mere illusion. Crucial elements… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“We're each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion trying to emerge into something solid, something real. We've got… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
But the fact of it was that I liked it out there, a ruin devoid of human vanities, clean of human illusions,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of ones own resources. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Maybe anything that anybody ever has is for now. What happened before is gone, and what will happen later is an illusion. — Tom Upton Copy Share Image
“The problem with communication…is the illusion that is has been accomplished.” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
My films generally center around thousands of pictures being flashed in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion. — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
“The universe is an illusion, created by consciousness to entertain itself.” — Anje Kruger Copy Share Image
The journey of life is a mental one, which is taking place in the sea of illusion. — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses. — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
“A magician reveals himself not only by the magic he presents but also by the respect and entertainment he gives to his… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Subject and object are not separate—so-called objective reality is projected by our subjective Consciousness.” — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
the illusion never really dissipates that you can lose twenty pounds in one night by cutting out dinner. — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
“In this world, ‘I am the doer’ and ‘I know it’’ - that which brings these two inner intents together is called… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Beauty that pleases the eye is a frail, fleeting illusion. But that beauty capable of pleasing the heart can endure endlessly.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion. — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
“Yes, the world is an illusion. But Truth is always being shown there.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even. — Judith Guest Copy Share Image
The inspiration for my illusions comes from many places. Most often they come from my dreams, or an everyday occurrence in life. — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
