I think love is often a bit selfish, even before we had consumerism. That's not new. A consumer society gives you the… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
The N.R.A.'s blessing of restrictions on bump stocks - devices that make semiautomatic weapons fire faster - is designed to pre-empt anything… — Charlie Sykes Copy Share Image
You were the living image of the entire Platonic shadow show, an illusion that could fill my emptiness with marvellous, imaginary things… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the… — Kathryn Bigelow Copy Share Image
I think illusion is one of the most interesting things that I've found to think about. Just look at yesterday, and what… — Laurie Anderson 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
I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion. — Mike Mills Copy Share Image
The Little Man does not know that he is little, and he is afraid of knowing it. He covers up his smallness… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“All of Nature follows perfectly geometric laws. The Ancient Egyptian, Greek, Peruvian, Mayan, and Chinese cultures were well aware of this, as… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any danger of me playing Indian music. However, I did a song of George Harrison's 'Beware of Darkness'… — Leon Russell Copy Share Image
Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education. — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The dilemma of Brechtian performance is that, for all of Brecht's emphasis on rationality and the undermining of theatrical illusion, the actor… — Philip Auslander Copy Share Image
Your soul has a special mission. Your soul is supremely conscious of it. Maya, illusion or forgetfulness, makes you feel that you… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
In general, it’s not too hard to corrupt an American, mostly a matter of supply to their demand. Supply should be variegated… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The causes of illusions are not pretty to discover. They're either vicious or tragic. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We are here among you as seekers of refuge from our present-your future-a time of worldwide famine, exhausted fuel supplies, terminal poverty-the… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The one wholly true thought one can hold about the past is that it is not here. To think about it at… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
A life that is truly lived is constantly burning away the veils of illusion, gradually revealing the essence of the individual. — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
“Life in illusion is in a transient belief on insight without perspective” — Farley Maglaya Copy Share Image
Man did not address his inquiries to the earth on which he stood until a remarkably late stage in the development of… — Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald Copy Share Image
To endure life remains, when all is said, the first duty of all living being Illusion can have no value if it… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
We need a romantic illusion to embark on relationships in the first place. After that, they survive or fail for other, more… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image