“Any kind of misery there is in the worldly life; the cause of it all is moha (illusory attachement).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Bodybuilding is about making oneself seem larger than life. It's about creating the illusion of perfection. — Mariah Nelson Copy Share Image
The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours. — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
If we venture beyond the pale of Scripture, we are...exposed to all the illusions of imagination and enthusiasm. — John Newton Copy Share Image
“Seeing through illusion is true fortune As we banish the waves of distortion.” — Clarissa Simmens Copy Share Image
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“With the illusion that we have dominion over the earth we conclude we have nothing to fear.” — Laurence Gonzales Copy Share Image
The novels that attract me most... are those that create an illusion of transperancy around a knot of human relationships as obscure,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Film is a truly magical medium. You can create illusions of reality, make people think they've seen things that they really haven't… — Tom Savini Copy Share Image
Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Thus, the distance between any two galaxies increases in time, creating the illusion of mechanical motion. But in reality, galaxies just sit… — Joao Magueijo Copy Share Image
Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and… — Michael Flanders Copy Share Image
Like the actor, authority has faith in its false whiskers. But its deepest faith is in the human illusion. People will hang… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
“It was an illusion. It was a tangled knot of fears and deceits and dark struggles for power that had disguised itself… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Science is the only news. When you scan a news portal or magazine, all the human interest stuff is the same old… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
“Life's existential tasks have lost the interest of reality; illusion cannot build a sanctuary for the divine growth of inwardness which ripens… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
But the man who is not afraid to admit everything that he sees to be wrong with himself, and yet recognizes that… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Beauty is an illusion, created by Mother Nature to drive the human species in the path of reproduction. In reality, beauty is… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“illusion of control to describe what happens when we place ourselves in the role of agent in a situation that truly lacks… — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
There was a great director who directed a picture that I wrote who barred me from the set quite appropriately and said,… — James L. Brooks Copy Share Image
I have no use whatsoever for projections or forecasts. They create an illusion of apparent precision. The more meticulous they are, the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
... love was an illusion which civilization had produced to give a little order to the frequency of the sex act. — Christer Kihlman Copy Share Image
But when I faced you in my blank confusion, I realized you weren't wrong, it was a mere illusion. — Daft Punk Copy Share Image
“Tomorrow is like 'there.' Once you get 'there,' it is called 'here.' So, technically, life is a set of Todays.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
You will not find in semantics any remedy for decayed teeth or illusions of grandeur or class conflict. — Alfred Tarski Copy Share Image
“How disquieting to realise that reality is an illusion, at best a democratisation of perception based on participant consensus.” — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time." Page 212.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Alas, the spheres of truth are less transparent than those of illusion. — L. E. J. Brouwer Copy Share Image
The only people who become disillusioned are people who have illusions. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The wind shifts like this: Like a human without illusions, Who still feels irrational things within her. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
My illusion is to have something to transmit. If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
“Love is the illusion you get in the mids of infatuation and happiness.” — Tia Clark Copy Share Image
“The notion that the world is mostly made up of small sets is an illusion imposed on us by our perceptual and… — Stanislas Dehaene Copy Share Image
Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don't know the difference. George: No, but we must carry on as though we did. Martha:… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
“Power, a paycheck and control do sick things to those who have the illusion of possessing it.” — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
“Your money myth affects your gain and luck. In economics, illusion of money affects wealth.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
