The tragedy of 'Lazarro' is about people who have the illusion that they are fighting for the poor, but in fact they… — Alice Rohrwacher Copy Share Image
All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter's ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
You see, my good friend, how much we are the creatures of situation and circumstance, and with what pliant servility the mind… — Sydney, Lady Morgan Copy Share Image
Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our antimaterialist, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Claridge's is elegant but determinedly unglamorous. The only fantasy it has to offer is the illusion that the world is in good… — Holly Brubach Copy Share Image
I have my dark side. You have your dark side. From the second that we have a brain, there are things that… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
She was wearing the same clothes, but now she looked haggard and dirty. The delicate illusions that get us through life can… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
“People of the world say that, "Absolute Knowledge (Keval Gnan) is a thing to 'do'." No, it is something to be known!… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
We create the illusions we need to go on. And one day, when they no longer dazzle or comfort, we tear them… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Beneath all the rhetoric about relevance lies a profoundly disturbing possibility - that people may base their lives upon an illusion, upon… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
This is part of the ongoing campaign that is brought to you by the Democrat Party and the media to create doubt.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I can take this real world and superimpose upon it the world of illusion (which isn't, really), in order to either fix… — Silver RavenWolf Copy Share Image
You'll find that marriage is a good short cut to the truth. No, not quite that. A way of doubling back to… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
“Happiness, thou art naught but an illusion. Thy enchantments are cast upon my eyes, my mind, my spellbound heart. Dependent upon nothing… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“We all serve the illusion from time to time, but when we are able to see through it, we become open to… — Gary Markwick Copy Share Image
Because it corresponds to a vital need, love is overvalued in our culture. It becomes a phantom - like success - carrying… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
The Virgin filled so enormous a space in the life and thought of the time that one stands now helpless before the… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Human domination over nature is quite simply an illusion, a passing dream by a naive species. It is an illusion that has… — Donald Worster Copy Share Image
“Why do I care about all the wrong things, and nothing at all for the right ones? Or, to tip it another… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“If you make a choice to walk into the darkness, eventually you may come to know that love is the invisible glue… — Jennifer Sodini Copy Share Image
“There is moksha (ultimate liberation) for the one who goes outside the moha (infatuation due to illusion). Moha is a vikalp (belief… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The illusion holds power over you when you are not able to remember that you are a powerful spirit that has taken… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The feature of living matter that most demands explanation is that it is almost unimaginably complicated in directions that convey a powerful… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
That’s the great illusion of travel, of course, the notion that there’s somewhere to get to. A place where you can finally… — David Gilmour Copy Share Image
“The pyramid is just an old eye watching a world trapped in its own illusion. Take off the square they placed on… — Michael Noyce Copy Share Image
Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the enlightenment, that which… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
These [religious ideas] are given out as teachings, are not precipitates of experience or end-results of thinking: they are illusions, fullfilments of… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
A photograph is a photograph, a picture, an image, an illusion complete within itself, depending neither on words, reproductive processes or anything… — Roy DeCarava Copy Share Image
A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing… — Socrates Copy Share Image
How can you construct a morality if there's no morality inherent in the way things are? You might be able to delude… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
It's almost like an optical illusion, 'The Hobbit.' You look at the book, and it is really thin, and you could make… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
You know the illusion of the cheap money is over and now Britain has to go out there and graft and earn… — George Osborne Copy Share Image
They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“In reality, no one is indeed at fault (doshit). When prakruti (relative self) is the doer, the Self is not responsible. When… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
You can’t change the world, but you can change yourself. That adage suits consumer capitalism perfectly, since the illusion of changing ourselves… — Madeleine Bunting Copy Share Image
A mystic sees beyond the illusion of separateness into the intricate web of life in which all things are expressions of a… — Joan Z. Borysenko Copy Share Image
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