Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
...it is not for the illusion of a moment to govern the choice of a lifetime. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The illusion that mechanical progress means human improvement ... alienates us from our own being and our own reality. It is precisely… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place. — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
As with our colleges, so with a hundred "modern improvements"; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Power, a paycheck and control do sick things to those who have the illusion of possessing it.” — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidest and most pernicious illusion. — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
If God does not exist, and if religion is an illusion that the majority of men cannot live without ... let men… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
Also, I had not yet found out about time; I was still under the illusion that I had plenty of time -… — Joseph Mitchell Copy Share Image
I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Simply naming objectives isn't sufficient for a vision. If I say that I'm going to build a large palace, but I don't… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as real happiness in life. The justest definition that was ever given of it was "a tranquil… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I've got my laptop, but it troubles me in many ways. I don't have Twitter or Facebook or anything like that. It… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
Liberate yourself from the illusion of culture. Take responsibility for what you think and what you do. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“I am in favour of illusion, not alienation... Drama must create a factitious spell-binding present moment and imprison the spectator in it.… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
It's life's illusions that I recall, I really don't know life at all — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Don't torment yourself with jealousy. It's a silly illusion that someone's life is better than yours when the truth is that each… — Demi Lovato Copy Share Image
Even in an intensely mediated world, in a world that offers at least the illusion of radical self-invention and radical freedom of… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
