“Safety is an illusion and perhaps it's better to challenge it sometimes, to see how far we can go, to learn about… — Tania Aebi Copy Share Image
The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
“Illusion" A man wants to be free flying in the emptiness of the universe He thinks he means something in the endlessness… — Asper Blurry Copy Share Image
“You lost your ability to choose the moment you started to use your eyes to see, and your heart to feel. Choice… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
Poetry is simply literature reduced to the essence of its active principle. It is purged of idols of every kind, of realistic… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
When you have lived longer in this world and outlived the enthusiastic and pleasing illusions of youth, you will find your love… — Joseph Henry Shorthouse Copy Share Image
I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
“My life is exactly what it's meant to be, and I'm okay. I'm. Okay. Those two words, yeah, they mean a lot… — Ashley Beale Copy Share Image
“The human mind is like a video. This means man lives his life in an illusion from birth. It is comparable to… — Woo Myung Copy Share Image
“The Vitarags (attachment-free enlightened one’s) say, ‘Make whatever intents that are suitable to you. If you get sensual intents towards Me, then… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
There is no past. That's another illusion. Everything that has ever happened to you, to me, to anyone in this world, happened… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
The speculative object and the practical object of philosophy as Naturalism, science and pleasure, coincide on this point: it is always a… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
The collaboration which sometimes follows is seldom based on good will: usually on desire, rage, fear, pity or longing. The modern illusion… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“Yes, there is a giant within each of us, capable of greatness. The mind keeps him deeply asleep in his dreary world… — Lidija Stankovikj Copy Share Image
To talk about something like prostitution, the other person then becomes the wild card that will have a response, and it may… — Robin Weigert Copy Share Image
So long as we are under the illusion that we know best what is good for the earth and for ourselves, then… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
“Illusion is Reality's coy lover who cheers him when he is grim. Illusion is cunning to his wisdom of ages, weet oblivion… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
“From birth, nature has designed us to approach the world as a whole, and when we slice experience up into bits and… — Rudolph E. Tanzi Copy Share Image
“And truth is true only as it brings down more disgrace and dreariness upon human beings, so that if it shows anything… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
“Even if there are moments during the day when all seems normal and when every action of your own and of those… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Formats are just illusions, and it's about the relationship between the person that makes music and the person that listens to music.… — Bjork Copy Share Image
“As a general rule, in the world of magic, the most successful magician is the one who has enough patience to keep… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Ambitions and dreams put you at a drinking table with unexpected companions. Cups were filled and refilled, making you drunk with the… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
Women are strange little beasts,' he said to Dr. Coutras. 'You can treat them like dogs, you can beat them till your… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
But, as Einstein once said, “For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent.”5 — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Friendship was another illusion like love, though it did not reach the same mad heights. People pretended that they were friends, when… — R.K. Narayan Copy Share Image
“I am convinced now that the desert has no heart, that it presents a riddle which has no answer, and that the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
When you surrender and release the illusion of control, you begin to free-fall toward your destiny of a grand reunion with your… — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
The forces you are struggling with, that you feel are holding you back - are illusions. They are not real - they… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
To believe that will has power over potentiality, that the passage to actuality is the result of a decision that puts an… — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image
Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it… — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
Rulers who destroy men's freedom commonly begin by trying to retain its forms. ... They cherish the illusion that they can combine… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I have loved works of fiction precisely for their illusions, for the author's sleight-of-hand in showing me the magic, what appeared in… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Peter Lake had no illusions about mortality. He knew that it made everyone perfectly equal, and that the treasures of the earth… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
'Illusion' is a story of God's love and our hunger to find him when we're separated from him. If I can paint… — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
Ive said its a little bit like a magician performing for a convention of magicians... all the magicians in the audience watching… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Once I go on stage, the atmosphere is totally theatrical. The greater the illusion, the greater the intensity of the excitement it… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image