Simply naming objectives isn't sufficient for a vision. If I say that I'm going to build a large palace, but I don't… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
A life truly lived constantly burns away veils of illusion, burns away what is no longer relevant, gradually reveals our essence, until,… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, we were all laboring under the illusion, or maybe it was a reality, that everyone in… — James Woods Copy Share Image
The past is an illusion. You must learn to live in the present and accept yourself for what you are now. What… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
And the more he was irritated by her basic personality, the more he was drawn to her by a harsh, bestial sensuality,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Clockwork could not run counter to its nature. The seconds, minutes, and hours moved only forward. Patient, precise, and unstoppable. Memory was… — Matthew J. Kirby Copy Share Image
As our mother-earth is a mere speck in the sunbeam in the illimitable universe, so man himself is but a tiny grain… — Ernst Haeckel 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
This specter of the female politician, who abandons her family to neglect for the sake of passing bills in parliament, is just… — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
You cannot hurt animals, so what do I do? I kill the dog first. Then I do it with the boy. You're… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
If you have a strong ego [and] something good happens to an acquaintance of yours, [it] makes you feel bad. It's called… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“I spoke of the tragic illusion of perpetuity, but, no, my friends, it is a comic one. The ludicrous plot in which… — Robert Coover Copy Share Image
At thirty I lived in a world where death wasn't immediately real; it was always something "out there." My deeply held illusions… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Despair ... is the only cure for illusion. Without despair we cannot transfer our allegiance to reality - it's a kind of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The world could be anything, you know, It could be a solid state matrix of some sort. It could be an illusion.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“One comes back [reborn] as a son because of harmony with us [from the past life] and one comes back as a… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is the shared bad faith by which individuals help each other sustain the illusion that they can shirk their spiritual destiny… — Merold Westphal Copy Share Image
The great human problem of evil stems from the illusion of separateness. Whenever this illusion is overcome, we behave lovingly to one… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All humanity could share a common insanity and be immersed in a common illusion while living in a common chaos. That can't… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“The Didots created happiness and power, or in this case, pain and sadness...but only within its subject’s mind. The power it held… — Maya Bode Copy Share Image
..The past is only an unreliable memory held in the present. The future is only a projection of our present conceptions. The… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Although I didn't write myself off as a complete failure, all illusion and romance was gone. I was no longer able to… — Arthur Nersesian Copy Share Image
Purity is an illusion. The idea of purity has been used as an excuse for calamities like honor killings, bride burnings, child… — Alice Glass Copy Share Image
What a fool I was! and yet, in the sight of angels, are we any wiser as we grow older? It seems… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Copy Share Image
Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting its outer trappings, or he will… — C.S. Friedman Copy Share Image
I've never really had a waist. Even when I was at my slimmest, my silhouette was very straight up, straight down. But… — Twiggy Copy Share Image
“And I understand what this is. It’s the opposite of the collapse of the fantasy. It’s what happens when the illusion pales… — Nina LaCour Copy Share Image
What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca Copy Share Image
The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive,… — Charles Rosen Copy Share Image
Professional philosophers are usually only apologists: that is, they are absorbed in defending some vested illusion or some eloquent idea. Like lawyers… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Divine reality is not way up in the sky somewhere; it is readily available in the encounters of everyday life, which make… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
Perhaps we can never understand our own children, because there is too much of ourselves inside there, or perhaps we are just… — Dinty W. Moore Copy Share Image
Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
![“You cannot hurt animals, so what do I do? I kill the dog first. Then I do it with the boy. You're not supposed to break the illusion of this being a film, so I make the actor talk to the audience. Provocation is the principle of the whole film [ Funny Games]. It is very ironic.” quote by Michael Haneke](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a78/michael-haneke-3712_actors_you-cannot-hurt-animals-so-what-do-i-do_1479959.jpg)
![“If you have a strong ego [and] something good happens to an acquaintance of yours, [it] makes you feel bad. It's called envy. ... The ego thinks something has been taken away from you because somebody else has received something good. It's a complete illusion, but that's the madness of the ego.” quote by Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/bfc/eckhart-tolle-81_acquaintance_if-you-have-a-strong-ego-and-something-g_1056270.jpg)
![“One comes back [reborn] as a son because of harmony with us [from the past life] and one comes back as a son also because of enmity [vengeance from the past life], [but] needlessly arises the illusion [wrong belief] that ‘they are mine...they are mine’.” quote by Dada Bhagwan](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e2f/dada-bhagwan-31_belief_one-comes-back-reborn-as-a-son-because-o_1081151.jpg)
