I called the world of phenomena an illusion, I called my…

I went back to the Art Institute, then spent the summer at the Ox-Bow School in Saugatuck, Michigan. That's what really awakened me. I…

— Claes Oldenburg

Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.

— Carter Burwell

“He sank back into his black-and-white world, his immobile world of inanimate drawings that had been granted the secret of motion, his death-world with…

— Steven Millhauser

There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Life starts with an illusion called love and ends with the magic called death¦

— Shubham Joshi

There is no right way to live. You preclude a lot of life by trying to conform to that kind of ideal or stereotype.…

— Gary Ross

One joins the movement in a valueless world, Choosing it, till both hurler and the hurled, One moves as well, always toward, toward.

— Thom Gunn

I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey. I believe that whenever a human being, of even…

— Mark Twain

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

— John Ruskin

“A life without an objective is much like a ship at sea with no port in mind. It drifts with the waves or storms,…

— Anonymous

Sound opinions are valueless. What matters is who holds them.

— Karl Kraus

Nature has no reverence towards life. Nature treats life as though it were the most valueless thing in the world… Nature does not act…

— Erwin Schrodinger

“A woman who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own pollution.”

— Suzy Kassem

Blind adoration, in the age of action, is perfectly valueless, is often embarrassing and, equally, often painful.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they fail to…

— G. M. Trevelyan