It seems to me, that the only Objects of the abstract Sciences or of Demonstration is Quantity and Number, and that all… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Humility does not live in the prison of illusion that says that this world is a dark and terrible place. Those perceptions… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The way you're singing in your sleep The way you look before you leap The strange illusions that you keep You don't… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame, abandoned by a fantasy. …People fancy they are enjoying… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Silent. So it should be. You have no place in this world, Luthiel. And there is no other.' Zalos reached out and… — Robert Fanney Copy Share Image
In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It's very hard to look in the mirror. We all know this. It's much easier to have illusions about yourself. And in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think of makeup as more like a design, decoration, or jewelry. I mean, it's literally paint; it's art. I don't prefer… — Indya Moore Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is not a matter of feeling superior, of feeling sorry for our parents because they didn't' know any better. It comes… — Gerald Jampolsky Copy Share Image
Misfortune occurs or can occur to anyone, of any sort of character. The eudaimonic has more resources to avoid it (being in… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“I consider the positions of kings and rulers as that of dust motes. I observe treasure of gold and gems as so… — Siddhārtha Gautama Copy Share Image
In Liberation, you stand alone. You stand alone because you need no supports of any kind. You need no supports because you… — 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
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
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
“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
Illusions... are simple facts, but they have been created by the mind, by the spirit, and they are one of the justifications… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside are saying about him… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Supreme beauty suddenly revealed is apt to strike us as a possible illusion playing with our desire—instant freedom with it to strike… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Every human being relies on and is bounded by his knowledge and experience to live. This is what we call reality .… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Dear Maya, Life is an illusion. And as it turns out, so is death. What is real? What remains when we all… — Cathy Ostlere Copy Share Image
“Chit is in the form of Gnan-darshan (Knowledge-vision). It discharges when evidence come together, and during that time, through illusion (ignorance of… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Love thy neighbor as thyself because you are your neighbor. It is illusion that makes you think that your neighbor is someone… — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Copy Share Image
“There is no way out other than ‘staying at the Gnani’s feet’ (being surrendered to the Enlightened one). The vision of the… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The romantic myth of the artist says that you are the Source. I have no illusion about that. Native Americans don't believe… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
The day that we would be together would be the best day of my existence. but I'm living each day as my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But what I wanted back had never really been there. He was a temporary illusion, a mirage of water after walking in… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
You convinced yourselves we're just a bunch of regular lads who got a bad break in life. Anything else would have cracked… — Peter F. Hamilton Copy Share Image
The illusion of skill is not only an individual aberration; it is deeply ingrained in the culture of the [investment management] industry. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Every evil thing or doing starts with a lie! So if you are hurt by a person who lied to you and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you have examined all the illusions of life and know that there isn't any reality, but you nevertheless go on, then… — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
As always, the illusion of self-transcendence is far more facile and available than self-transcendence itself: in the vast majority of cases what… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The illusion of design is so successful that to this day most Americans (including, significantly, many influential and rich Americans) stubbornly refuse… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The mental never influences the physical. It is always the physical that modifies the mental, and when we think that the mind… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
When the Bible and the Gospels say that the victims should have been spared, they do not merely 'take pity' on them.… — Rene Girard Copy Share Image
I'm not under any illusion that I'm an A-lister; I don't think I'm even on the alphabet scale. But I'm in people's… — Rylan Clark-Neal Copy Share Image
“The labyrinths that time creates vanish. (Only the desert remains.) The heart, fountain of desire, vanishes. (Only the desert remains.) The illusion… — Federico García Lorca Copy Share Image
Large waves of love and romance are nice, but all waves of strong feeling, with their inherent illusion of certainty, must eventually… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Oh, the illusion of choice in the modern world - don't get me started. But don't you agree that the Internet has… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image