Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
You will not find in semantics any remedy for decayed teeth or illusions of grandeur or class conflict. — Alfred Tarski Copy Share Image
The only people who become disillusioned are people who have illusions. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
“A moment of torture feels like an eternity, while an eternity of joy passes in a moment. Perhaps time is naught but… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
The magic of theatre is how much can you stimulate the mind of the audience, not how many illusions you can create. — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“A magician with decreasing practice sessions will give defective performances.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory. — William Faulkner 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
As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up… — Roberto Bolano 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
The worst thing about depression isn't the sense that you're accentuating the negative, it's that you're seeing things the way they really… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
I have no illusions that my work can rouse the masses to create change, because literature simply doesn't have that power anymore… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, our… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Subhuti, someone might fill innumerable worlds with the seven treasures and give all away in gifts of alms, but if any good… — Siddhārtha Gautama Copy Share Image
“At least let me now deceive myself with illusions so as not to feel my empty life. And yet I came so… — Constantinos P. Cavafis Copy Share Image
“It is true that we still talk about "happiness" or "liberty" or "justice," but people no longer have any idea of the… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
“ Any relationship with long-term potential has a honeymoon period, however brief, marked by the happy illusion that one's lover might be… — Zack Love Copy Share Image
“The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
