“loss of those illusions that give such color to the world so that you don’t care whether things are true or false… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
You've got to drop something. You've got to drop illusions. You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Europeans must shed their illusions about what they can accomplish in the world on their own. Loose talk about resurrecting a multi-polar… — Richard N. Haass Copy Share Image
The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life led by human beings; the second was that human… — John Irving Copy Share Image
The mere reality of life would be inconceivably poor without the charm of fancy, which brings in its bosom, no doubt, as… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
“I damned myself for my earlier romanticism. That Croaker who had come north, so thoroughly bemused by the mysterious Lady, was another… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
Democracy, Republic: What do these words signify? What have they changed in the world? Have men become better, more loyal, kinder? Are… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
I knew that most people never see this reality because they attach to the material aspect of the world. Illusions of self… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I combine magic and science to create illusions. I work with new media and interactive technologies, things like artificial intelligence or computer… — Marco Tempest Copy Share Image
“Take this drink as a token of my disrepute and spin that hay tonight and tomorrow it will be shining golden bright… — Initially NO Copy Share Image
“In this life we want much, yet in reality, to be happy and fulfilled we need very little indeed! And to truly… — Sean Azimov Copy Share Image
Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of… — Dan Flavin Copy Share Image
“She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she kept all her illusions. She tried to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am almost certain that space and time are illusions. These are primitive notions that will be replaced by something more sophisticated. — Nathan Seiberg Copy Share Image
Human beings have illusions. The enlightened don't have illusions. They see things as they are, and in that seeing, they see ecstasy… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The way you're singing in your sleep The way you look before you leap The strange illusions that you keep You don't… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
It's very hard to look in the mirror. We all know this. It's much easier to have illusions about yourself. And in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Illusions... are simple facts, but they have been created by the mind, by the spirit, and they are one of the justifications… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
When you have examined all the illusions of life and know that there isn't any reality, but you nevertheless go on, then… — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
“We risk being the first people in history to have been able to make their illusions so vivid, so persuasive, so ‘realistic’… — Gary Goldhammer Copy Share Image
I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
“Imagine if our negative feelings, or at least lots of them, turned out to be illusions, and we could dispel them by… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“General belief is “There is no real magic, only tricks” but a great magician compel people not to trust that belief and… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths? Isn't it a sufficient condemnation of society to… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
“The way you're singing in your sleep The way you look before you leap The strange illusions that you keep You don't… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Being a former theater student, of course, there is a part of me that is fascinated with stage crafts and what you… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
“If we choose to, we can live in a world of comforting illusions. We can allow ourselves to be deceived by false… — Emily Thorne Copy Share Image
“Whenever you stand firmly in the midst of a hardship, holding and expressing the love that you are, you will witness illusions… — Glenda Green Copy Share Image
“Humans cannot live without illusions. For the men and women of today, an irrational faith in progress may be the only antidote… — John Gray Copy Share Image
Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I like the idea that we build up these walls or rules or laws to maintain our reality, and when they fall… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
“The path towards living in a spiritual manner begins by eliminating inculcated cultural biases, destroying personal illusions, and gratefully accepting the world… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Illusions... or real illusions. Within the illusions hide real illusions... from the real illusions, the illusions are created. Within the truth hides… — Akira Amano Copy Share Image
This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no… — Artur Davis Copy Share Image
“The problem with abstractions (like reports and documents) is that they create illusions of agreement. A hundred people can read the same… — Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson Copy Share Image
“Good becomes perfect, but perfect is an illusion. And illusions are like all spells—temporary and soon broken. And when that happens, feelings… — Erin McCahan Copy Share Image
