“There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by love.” — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Some are masters of illusions, some are ministers of trade, all under the same delusion, all their beds unmade. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
There's this illusion that homosexuals have sex and heterosexuals fall in love. That's completely untrue. Everybody wants to be loved. — Boy George Copy Share Image
What is actually happening is often less important than what appears to be happening. — William V. Shannon Copy Share Image
Art achieves all little things by absolute truth: but all her great things need some admixture of illusion. — Richard B. Garnett Copy Share Image
If you want to stay in a state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed… — Al Goldstein Copy Share Image
What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The intertwining of corporations and government has become so extensive in this century that the notion of a democratic balancing act has… — Charles Derber Copy Share Image
You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing… — Rafael Nadal Copy Share Image
Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill,… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Speculative markets have always been vulnerable to illusion. But seeing the folly in markets provides no clear advantage in forecasting outcomes, because… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
You don't choose because if you choose you might make the wrong choice, based upon ego or illusion. Instead, you let eternity… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“He already knew that life was largely illusion, that though wonderful things could happen, nevertheless as many disappointments came in compensation: and… — William Sansom Copy Share Image
That which is seen and that which is touched are of a dream-like and illusion-like nature. Because feeling arises together with the… — Shantideva Copy Share Image
“I don't mean to defend zoos. Close them all down if you want (and let us hope that what wildlife remains can… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“You are dealing with national security. Anything labeled a national security issie is taken out from the system. There is no due… — Victor Methos Copy Share Image
“That's about when people realized that this wasn't some kind of show, an optical illusion or something to stand around and point… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
As our mother earth is a mere speck in the sunbeam in the illimitable universe, so man himself is but a tiny… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
“But for all of that life-shaping power, race is a mirage, which doesn’t lessen its force. We are what we see ourselves… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
Late at night, when everyone is quiet, sit alone and gaze into the mind; then you notice illusion ending and reality appearing.… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter what form she takes - a living spirit, an illusion - but you have to see her, have to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Magazines airbrush everything. If you think it's an illusion, then it probably is. — Valerie Harper Copy Share Image
“What an illusion, she thinks, the idea of an ordered, ordinary life.” — Dalia Sofer Copy Share Image
It makes sense to work towards a better world, but it doesn't make any sense to have illusions about what the real… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The commonsense rules of the "real world" are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions. — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
“The one who has known for certain that all this world is the product of illusion, and that nothing exists, naturally enjoys… — Robert Wolfe Copy Share Image
I am fortunate to have the resources to have many methods to do each of my illusions. — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
“All time is illusion, unless it's a record of love. Life is but illusion, till it's an instrument of love.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
If you see the illusion you are enlightened, but if you think that you are enlightened you are in the illusion! — H. W. L. Poonja Copy Share Image
Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as the greatest of all time. It doesn't exist. It's an illusion. — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Conceit is the illusion that our flaws aren't real. - Mwando, Gift Tawanda — Mwando Gift Tawanda Copy Share Image
The illusion of life is crucial for the work, otherwise the ideas wouldn't be able to jump across, people wouldn't engage with… — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
“I know that life is just a game An illusion that will fade Cheat and lie, have it your way But you… — Samy Yusuf Copy Share Image
Life never ceases. Life is an overflowing source, and death is only an obscure effect of illusions. — Andre Luiz Moreira Copy Share Image
“Daylight dreamer beware, Thin is the wall of illusion. The magic might be over too soon, Before you even reach the sun.” — Joso Skarica Copy Share Image
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