The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The genius of a great magician is as impressive as the genius of a great scientist.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
The task of the software development team is to engineer the illusion of simplicity. — Grady Booch Copy Share Image
“That our age is thought to be less epic than those worlds on offer at natural history museums is only an illusion.” — Peter Brannen Copy Share Image
The economic illusion is the belief that social justice is bad for economic growth. — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
Art is a Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
“People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.… — John Gribbin Copy Share Image
It's only illusions that destroy us. It's illusions that convince us that we can't. It's the illusions of the transient that tell… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The modern scientist attempts to step outside of himself in order to observe himself, an attempt that is always doomed to failure.… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
You'd think people would realize they're bad at multitasking and would quit. But a cognitive illusion sets in, fueled in part by… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
I'm not a big believer in the power of more regulation to fix things. I think it can almost be more dangerous… — Bethany McLean Copy Share Image
Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Miracles occur when two people realize that there is no separation between them. In that moment, love flows freely and their true… — Elizabeth Herrera Copy Share Image
[T]hus one should not think that desire is repressed, for the simple reason that the law is what constitutes both desire and… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
When a man sleeps, he is steeped and lost in a limp toneless happiness: awake he is restless, tortured by his body… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
There is the devil at the door. I'm nearly going under, can't help but wonder who am I working for? No one's… — Tinashe Copy Share Image
It is sad to see a young man's fondest hopes and dreams shattered when the rose-colured veil is plucked away and he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Well, I dare not allow myself any illusions, and I am afraid it may never happen that Father and Mother will really… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“Gore Vidal, for instance, once languidly told me that one should never miss a chance either to have sex or to appear… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I like the idea of the book being wiser than the person who wrote it. None of the novels I've written are… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
“ Life is a performance, I thought. Perthaps the word "illusion" would have meant more or less the same thing, but to… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
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