I'm really trying hard not to do anything that has been done before. So knowing everything I can about the legacy of… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
We seem to prefer a comfortable lie to the uncomfortable truth. We punish those who point out reality, and reward those who… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
“Amidst this paradoxical existence emerges a dichotomy – a world dying outside, while we, ensnared in our paradisiacal illusion, merely survive without… — Ryan Gelpke Copy Share Image
People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true that is how they define reality. But what does… — Kishimoto Masashi Uchiha Itachi - chapter 385 Copy Share Image
“When we are healthy, wealthy and powerful, we forget about our mortality. It’s only when irreparable cracks set in that we come… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
To try and fit reincarnation into a neat mental package is very unwise. You will be very surprised when you discover that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Overconfidence is a powerful source of illusions, primarily determined by the quality and coherence of the story that you can construct, not… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Spirituality is not primarily about values and ethics, not about exhortations to do right or live well. The spiritual traditions are primarily… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
No disease of the imagination is so difficult to cure, as that which is complicated with the dread of guilt : fancy… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“I don't like when I can't control what reality is doing. Which is unfortunate because reality works independently of the things I… — Allie Brosh Copy Share Image
“I feel that from the very beginning life played a terrible conjurer’s trick on me. I lost faith in it. It seems… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
“The first enslaving illusion is the idea that people are born to be consumers and that they can attain any of their… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
On foundations we believe in the reality of mathematics, but of course, when philosophers attack us with their paradoxes, we rush to… — Jean Dieudonne Copy Share Image
We tend to suffer from the illusion that we are capable of dying for a belief or theory. What Hagakure is insisting… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
The effect on men has been very bad, too, of the omission of women's history, because men have been given the impression… — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
Each part of the mind sees only a little of what happens in some others, and that little is swiftly refined, reformulated… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
The sprinkling of people of color through elite institutions in the United States, due to affirmative action policies and the limited progress… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
We need a romantic illusion to embark on relationships in the first place. After that, they survive or fail for other, more… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
If a given science accidentally reached its goal, this would by no means stop the workers in the field, who would be… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
To ensure that our views are credible, our brain accepts what our eye sees. To ensure that our views are positive, our… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
I enjoyed mathematics from a very young age. At the beginning of college, I had this illusion, which was kind of silly… — Erez Lieberman Aiden Copy Share Image
Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
In order to put meaning back into our lives, we should recognize illusions for what they are, and we should reach out… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
“We are a species hungry for illusion. A powerful illusion not only convinces us it’s real, it becomes more meaningful to us… — Mark Russell Copy Share Image
Sexuality, for the person who practices tantra, is a marvelous way to experience illusion. Illusion is just another way of seeing things.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Movies, after all, are only an illusion of motion comprised of thousands of still photographs. The imagination, however, moves with its own… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
We enjoy this illusion of continuity and we call it memory. Which explains, perhaps, why our worst fear isn't the end of… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
You can think whatever you want, you can create all the labels you choose, but the universe just is. You can come… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Men mess up. Women create this big illusion in their head that the man they're going to be with is going to… — Jessica White Copy Share Image
I think inequality is in our minds. I think this is what we learn through practice... The bridge of illusion must be… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Now there was no wonder in the Statue of Liberty illusion because he, Copperfield, attempted to do something so large that it… — Doug Henning Copy Share Image
They were told what they wanted and they believed it. They can only keep their dream alive by being with others like… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Alexander the Great once said that 'I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity!' What… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave… — Buddha Copy Share Image
I wish what I do was all real. Some of it's real, some of it's an illusion and I try to blur… — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
We judge people and initiatives by their results, and we expect events to happen for good, understandable reason. But our clear visions… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
'TMZ' took the illusion of privacy away. Now the paranoid star just assumes someone is always there. Decoy cars and false itineraries… — Stephen Rodrick Copy Share Image
