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
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
Because of the way I am built I photograph taller than I actually am; it's an optical illusion. The way you're naturally… — Lydia Hearst 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
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
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
Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I don't do formal debates, because formal debates where you have two people up on a stage in equal status, and each… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In our true blissful essence of mind is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever...listen to the silence inside… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Darkness my beloved home, I return! I return, not whole, but damaged. Fatigued by quixotic tendencies, The prodigal has come back famished.… — Zubair Ahsan Copy Share Image
“Although the Being (Universal Mind) is not material, it does not mean that we cannot, conditionally, call this Mind an immaterial “substance.”… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Sweet pliability of man's spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions, which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments!… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
To let go of the illusion that I'm in control is an important lesson, because I tend to be a person who… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The dilemma of Brechtian performance is that, for all of Brecht's emphasis on rationality and the undermining of theatrical illusion, the actor… — Philip Auslander Copy Share Image
That is the essence and mission of 'rebel buddha': to free us from the illusions we create by ourselves, about ourselves, and… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Tribalism is a social form which can exist at any level of technology. It's a complete illusion to associate it with low… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
People do not marry people, not real ones anyway; they marry what they think the person is; they marry illusions and images.… — James Framo Copy Share Image
“But love...it's only an illusion. A story one makes up in one's mind about another person. And one knows all the time… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I've never been under the illusion that everybody on death row is innocent - far from it. My own guess is upwards… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
You were the living image of the entire Platonic shadow show, an illusion that could fill my emptiness with marvellous, imaginary things… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“When the wrong belief [of ‘I am Chandubhai’] goes away, the inner burning [antar daah, inner suffering] goes away. Inner burning is… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
To me, the art of cinema is the same as the art of painting. The artist takes a 2D medium and gives… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
Seek for the endless life in the world, because with death, there remains neither the seeker nor the sought! The other world… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
My heart is tuned to sorrow, and the strings Vibrate most readily to minor chords, Searching and sad; my mind is stuffed… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
At the moment you're suffering from what we call Maya. Maya is illusion. Maya is a Sanskrit word that suggests that we… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves. — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be… — Johann Most Copy Share Image
“Being more self-aware means welcoming more light into a dull life. After the light is let in to our self-perceptions, we immediately… — Raphael Zernoff Copy Share Image
Disneyland would be a world of Americans, past and present, seen through the eyes of my imagination--a place of warmth and nostalgia,… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
I don't have any illusion that The Creeper is as popular or will ever be as popular as any of the classic… — Victor Salva Copy Share Image
I must say that the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles… — Goldie Hawn Copy Share Image
Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
Retirement is an illusion. Not a reward but a mantrap. The bankrupt underside of success. A shortcut to death. Golf courses are… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I actually feel sorry for people who have a lot of illusions in their head about what gay is. I mean, I… — Richard Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Fear forces us to spend our lives dealing with it, ostensibly to overcome it. But that is a trick. Only fear (the… — Cheri Huber Copy Share Image