Enlightenment says the world is nothing Nothing but a dream, everything's an illusion And nothing is real. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget… — Conrad Veidt 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
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
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
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
Life balance is a myth. It's an illusion and the very pursuit of it is driving us crazy. For me it's about… — Danielle LaPorte Copy Share Image
The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Take all the Syrians, for example. They are where they need to be. They don't need saving. They are having their experiences… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
The first part of the spiritual journey should properly be called psychological rather than spiritual because it involves peeling away the myths… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
A nation like China has become one of the biggest production fields for exporting cheap labor, which also re-questions our history and… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy...One has to free oneself from the… — Ottmar Edenhofer Copy Share Image
Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it… — Kim Chernin Copy Share Image
When we were small, Rose and I used to play a game called connect the dots. I loved it. I loved drawing… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
We have all learned everything we know physically—from walking to running a marathon—by trial and error, so there's no reason to become… — Amby Burfoot Copy Share Image
...It's all sort of dreams and it's all illusion. It's theater; it's not real. We're making up stories, you know, and people… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Now, I know it's a widespread assumption in the West that as countries modernize, they also westernize. This is an illusion. It's… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
The utter failure came at the Crucifixion in the tragic words, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' If you… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
A moral character is attached to autumnal scenes; the leaves falling like our years, the flowers fading like our hours, the clouds… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
There is no inherent awakening power in cultural forms that have become dissociated from the wisdom and practicality that gave birth to… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“Do I see control on all sides, or the illusion of control?" List’s face twisted slightly. "Sometimes the two are one and… — Steven Erikson 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
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood. — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
The sky is like a monochromatic contemporay painting, drawing me in its illusion of depth, pulling me up. — John Green Copy Share Image
...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“That is the present: an emanation of memory bouncing on the illusion of the future” — Anouar Majid Copy Share Image
A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread. — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
“Courage?" I gave a very soft laugh. "I find courage is just another of life's illusions. In the end, we all do… — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Free will and consciousness is an illusion, and the self is a complex of memes. — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion. — Judith Guest Copy Share Image
Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
“It was more about understanding that you could give it your all, give yourself the best chances, but control is an illusion.” — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
I'm the luckiest man in the world - performing 500 shows a year and loving what I do - illusion IS my… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image