Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
“Expectations are illusions; Pretense they hang on thin threads.” — sir kristian goldmund aumann Copy Share Image
We must escape our illusions of correctness to understand the actions and beliefs of others. — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
“What I say is misdirection, what you see is an illusion and what results is magic.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget… — Conrad Veidt Copy Share Image
The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“Perhaps she thought, this was the way everything in America actually was- all smoke and mirrors, with only illusions of grandeur.” — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
“This is where the disillusioned gathered to look for new illusions” — William McKeen Copy Share Image
Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
No doubt the truth is hard to come by for those who do not like the sound of it - dreams and… — Anatoli Granovsky Copy Share Image
“youth is given up to illusions. It seems to be a provision of Nature; a decoy to secure mothers for the race.… — kate chopin 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
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 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
“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
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
“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
“Here one comes upon an all-important English trait: the respect for constituitionalism and legality, the belief in 'the law' as something above… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We have a country to turn around. This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60… — Artur Davis Copy Share Image
The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Some religions believe that there's a hierarchy, that you don't have a connection, but you must go through the shaman or the… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
“I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
“If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Because our generation has waited so long to have babies, we feel we've 'discovered' something that women have been doing for thousands… — Jane Pauley Copy Share Image
“Are designations congruent with things? Is language the adequate expression of all realities? It is only by means of forgetfulness that man… — Friedrich Neitzsche Copy Share Image
