Our fears are more numerous than our dangers, and we suffer more in our imagination than in reality. — Seneca Copy Share Image
Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the enlightenment, that which… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Nothing feeds forgetfulness better than war.... We all keep quiet and they try to convince us that what we've seen, what we've… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
All order, I've come to understand, is theoretical, unreal, a harmless, sensible, smiling mask men slide between the two great, dark realities,… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
Why do everything perfectly? Isn't perfection just an illusion? Tell me if it's an illusion if they don't fix your car perfectly… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In this world of illusion, where at the end of the examination, we find everything to be of little importance, of little… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think I would rather live on the verge of falling and let my security be in the all-sufficiency of the grace… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
“How disquieting to realise that reality is an illusion, at best a democratisation of perception based on participant consensus.” — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Till we attain immortality, all life will remain just an illusion! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
To escape the power of the unknown, to prove to yourself that you don't believe in it, you accept its spells. Like… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Tears and fears and feeling proud To say I love you, right out loud Dreams and schemes and circus crowds I've looked… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
In the long run, it is far more dangerous to adhere to illusion than to face what the actual fact is. — David Bohm Copy Share Image
Transformation without work and pain, without suffering, without a sense of loss is just an illusion of true change. — William P. Young Copy Share Image
For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities - a willing movement of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Do you want a sign that you're asleep? Here it is: you're suffering. Suffering is a sign that you're out of touch… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
“How many minutes will still die in the swamp of your illusion of being human?” — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
Perhaps scientists will eventually discover that we are all clockwork bunnies, and our experience of volition is an electro-chemical illusion. — Lionel Shriver 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
“We are only able to disrespect, mistreat, and harm one another when we forget that the other person is us; when we… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
And I didn't know I loved her till I'd dreamt of her. I didn't know it was the real thing until an… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
