People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
One of my principal concerns is the contradiction between appearance and reality - illusion and reality. I try to set up an… — Stuart Pearson Wright Copy Share Image
It's a false illusion that we wake up thinking of who we are in terms of identity and that we are stuck… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I don't have the illusion that there's any position or role in the world with as much potential for bringing about change… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
To me, Batman is definately Bruce Wayne's darker side. The challenge is playing it as two separate aspects of the same person.… — Kevin Conroy Copy Share Image
Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I even wonder if I am the only one truly existing, if the world around me is merely an intricate illusion… — Sajal Garg Copy Share Image
In Catholicism, you learn to worship a superior god that creates, who organizes and creates. And when you do novels, you have… — Carmen Boullosa Copy Share Image
Yes, victors are our strongest. They're the ones who survived the arena and slipped the noose of poverty that strangles the rest… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Many of you have already found out, and others will find out in the course of their lives, that truth eludes us… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Deep down we all suspect that something is very wrong with the way we perceive life but we try very, very hard… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Do you want a sign that you're asleep? Here it is: you're suffering. Suffering is a sign that you're out of touch… — Anthony de Mello 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
The events in Crimea themselves have nothing to do with what happened in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and other regions. In my opinion,… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
We continue to have this illusion that things outside of us aren't driving what we think and believe, when in fact so… — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
It's all kind of a big illusion: the white picket fence and the perfect marriage and the kids. Check that box off,… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
“You are just as connected to the Universe as a finger is to a hand, or as a branch is to a… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
Things aren't always as they appear. I've been believing things to be a certain way because I want them to be that… — Brett Dennen Copy Share Image
The experience of going to the other side to nirvana clarifies and simplifies your view of all things. You see the world… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You can be in a state of mind for a few seconds and forget that you were ever in any other state… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. the illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Democratic regimes may be defined as those in which, every now and then, the people are given the illusion of being sovereign,… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
What fame does is there is an illusion of familiarity that is cast into the world. So it's about negotiating with that… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you... Then,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Given the illusion that sports presents - that of being indomitable, influential and financially powerful - what is remarkable is that it… — Simon Jordan Copy Share Image
Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and is lending oneself to the universal illusion without becoming… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“People think I have so much faith in myself, but I have none. I have no faith in myself, or in what… — marcus sedgwick Copy Share Image
What we see on the TV screen, or the film screen or what we listen to in music, we have an illusion… — Shari Wiedmann Copy Share Image
And what would happen to my illusion that I am a force for order in the home if I wasn't married to… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
Yet human experience and the practice of communication have shown throughout the ages that definitions are an illusion, like having a speech… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
War is being reminded that you are completely at the mercy of death at every moment, without the illusion that you are… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
You are traveling and see these people shooting the entire experience of going through a city, and maybe in the back of… — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
In my later novels, I systematically used the convention, and then a moment came - when did it come? With The Book… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The time comes when each of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Science is simply a logical process of discovering truths about the world we live in; the illusion is that science is some… — Robert Todd Carroll Copy Share Image
Living is a risk," I snapped at him. "Every decision, every interaction, every step, every time you get out of bed in… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
