It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It is because we feel that we are separate from nature that we also feel it is okay to manipulate it, pollute… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
It is difficult not to believe that the next year will be better than the old one! And this illusion is not… — Kersti Bergroth Copy Share Image
They stared at her curiously, and she caught snatches of conversation in two or three languages. It wasn't hard to guess their… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“I have seen a face with a thousand countenances, and a face that was but a single countenance as if held in… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
“Fortunately, all you have to get rid of is the illusion. People think they have to get rid of the small self… — Jan Esmann Copy Share Image
When I compare life to a dream I do not mean to denigrate it as some sort of meaningless fantasy. Life is… — Timothy Freke Copy Share Image
“...I continued to sit there hour after hour watching the unrelenting rain slosh against the glass, thinking of our life together, Lotte's… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
There is no neatness in any life- great or small. It is only an illusion men foolishly pursue. All lived lives are… — Tarun J. Tejpal Copy Share Image
Pure physical sensation, social status, sexual attraction, and feeling like a winner are generally superficial, which is why people hunger for them… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
When someone tells you, 'I love you,' and then you feel, 'Oh, I must be worthy after all,' that's an illusion. That's… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Birth leads to death, death precedes birth. So if you want to see life as it really is, it is rounded on… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A moral character is attached to autumnal scenes; the leaves falling like our years, the flowers fading like our hours, the clouds… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
There is no inherent awakening power in cultural forms that have become dissociated from the wisdom and practicality that gave birth to… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The utter failure came at the Crucifixion in the tragic words, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' If you… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Now, I know it's a widespread assumption in the West that as countries modernize, they also westernize. This is an illusion. It's… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
“Beauty is an illusion, created by Mother Nature to drive the human species in the path of reproduction. In reality, beauty is… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Science is the only news. When you scan a news portal or magazine, all the human interest stuff is the same old… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
“Life's existential tasks have lost the interest of reality; illusion cannot build a sanctuary for the divine growth of inwardness which ripens… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
But the man who is not afraid to admit everything that he sees to be wrong with himself, and yet recognizes that… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Do I see control on all sides, or the illusion of control?" List’s face twisted slightly. "Sometimes the two are one and… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
We have all learned everything we know physically—from walking to running a marathon—by trial and error, so there's no reason to become… — Amby Burfoot Copy Share Image
When we were small, Rose and I used to play a game called connect the dots. I loved it. I loved drawing… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
...It's all sort of dreams and it's all illusion. It's theater; it's not real. We're making up stories, you know, and people… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“Just the class division of society creates two different, two parallel worlds/antipodes in this very society. And this means yet two polar… — Todor Bombov Copy Share Image
All the excesses, all the violence, and all the vanity of great men, come from the fact that they know not what… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“When we look at a tree, we do not see the tree for what it really is. We see how it appears… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
We are here among you as seekers of refuge from our present-your future-a time of worldwide famine, exhausted fuel supplies, terminal poverty-the… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“Everywhere I looked, I could see only shades of gray. Black and white were nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds,… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
This modernizing experiment seems to have something diabolic about it. Everything that was becomes rejected in the name of a modernity that… — Andrzej Stasiuk Copy Share Image
None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions! A mantle of marble hiding a crumbling core of… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Look at me I am the life in a wasteland Look at me I am the slavery through the ages Look at… — Rixa White Copy Share Image
“illusion of control to describe what happens when we place ourselves in the role of agent in a situation that truly lacks… — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
There was a great director who directed a picture that I wrote who barred me from the set quite appropriately and said,… — James L. Brooks Copy Share Image
I have no use whatsoever for projections or forecasts. They create an illusion of apparent precision. The more meticulous they are, the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
He's lost something, some illusion I used to think was necessary to him. He's come to realize he too is human. Or… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
With stillness comes the benediction of peace”. “Thinking isolates a situation or event and calls it good or bad, as if it… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
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