Introducing a technology is not a neutral act--it is profoundly revolutionary. If you present a new technology to the world you are… — Karl Schroeder Copy Share Image
“It was a sort of car that seemed to have a faculty for motion with an absolute lack of any accompanying sound… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning - I am surely far different from what you… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The secret to gaining the upper hand in a negotiation is to give the other side the illusion of control. Don't try… — Christopher Voss Copy Share Image
Everybody felt his superiority, but nobody felt oppressed by it. Though he had no illusions about people and human affairs, he was… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“In that moment, I lost completely the illusion of time and space: the world unfurled its drama simultaneously along a meridian that… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The world comes second hand - fifth hand - to us and the illusion that it is fresh because it is shown… — Josephine Herbst Copy Share Image
Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cannot possess our children,… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
The illusion that mechanical progress means human improvement ... alienates us from our own being and our own reality. It is precisely… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I assure you, Constable Morgan, I am quite sane, as I understand the word, perhaps the sanest person in this room, for… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Chaos isn’t a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail and never get to try again. The… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“This hinted at something that no one had ever suspected -- that the brain tracks moving things more easily that still things.… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
Our business is to wake up. We have to find ways in which to detect the whole of reality in the one… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Think hard about the reasons for believing and not believing, what your religion teaches you and demands so inexorably that you believe.… — Jean Meslier Copy Share Image
One of the delights beyond the grasp of youth is that of Not Going. Not to have an invitation for the dance,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The essential factor in the transition of the baroque to photography is not the perfecting of a physical process... rather does it… — Andre Bazin Copy Share Image
She wasn't, nor ever had been, under the illusion that marriage was a relationship characterized by endless bliss and romance. Throw any… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I want men to admire me, but that's a trick you learn at school--a movement of the eyes, a tone of voice,… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“The world is an illusion, but it is an illusion that we must take seriously, because it is as real as it… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“There should not be opinion regarding anything. Opinion means you are supporting it. ‘Know’ the wrong as wrong, ‘Know’ right as right.… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Being tame is what we're taught: ... put the crayons back, stay in line, don't talk too loud, keep your knees together,… — Sark Copy Share Image
“She might have seen that what had bowed her head so profoundly - the thought of the world's concern at her situation… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own:… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When the horror recedes and the world resumes its normal shape, you cannot forget it. You have seen what is really there,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
This place . whats so important about it ? is it important because of our memories, those illusions of happiness that we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no objective reality. But there is only an illusion of consciousness, there is only an objectivication of reality, which was… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
“stepped out of the tent on to nothing. Sledge and tent were there, Estraven stood beside me, but neither he nor I… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of… — Kobo Abe Copy Share Image
So far in facing this huge [peak oil] challenge, our political/economic system seems unable to cope with reality. We are forced to… — Madeleine Bunting Copy Share Image
Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
As each one of us awakens, it is like a light going on, followed by another light, another light, and another light.… — Leonard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Bright and illustrious illusions! Who can blame, who laugh at the boy, who not admire and commend him, for that desire of… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“V.V. sought to express something, which until expressed had only a twilight being (or even none at all--nothing but the illusion of… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
New York musicians rarely have the time for idle chat and conversation after a gig. Despite popular assumption of our scintillating after-hours,… — Kat Edmonson Copy Share Image
If you look at history, even recent history, you see that there is indeed progress. . . . Over time, the cycle… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“In Advaita Vedanta, and in many other ancient wisdom traditions, the world is said to be an illusion. This illusion is commonly… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Deductivism in mathematical literature and inductivism in scientific papers are simply the postures we choose to be seen in when the curtain… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
“ Refutation of the Assertion That the (Phenomenal) Appearances Are Mind Although forms appear to the mind, the (objective) appearances are not… — Longchen Rabjam Copy Share Image
“Whenever you look to your desires and feel a high level of illusions of peace or pleasure, it's not reality. If you… — Munir Ahmad Copy Share Image