What staggers me is not the persistence of illusion, but the persistence of the world in the face of illusion. — A G Mojtabai Copy Share Image
Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
You're a prisoner of your own illusions - about yourself and about the world. — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
We may think that our tradition is exactly the same as it has always been, but that is an illusion. — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion. — Alva Myrdal Copy Share Image
I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion. — Mike Mills Copy Share Image
The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Illusions are certainly expensive amusements; but the destruction of illusions is still more expensive, if looked upon as an amusement, as it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Guess I thought you'd be here forever, another illusion I chose to create, you don't know what you've got till it's gone… — Ana Chable Copy Share Image
On some level we trade passion for security, that's trading one illusion for another. It's a matter of degree. We can't live… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
You poor, deluded woman...do you believe there is any such thing as love?...You're living an illusion. Do you believe the words of… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Women if you want to realise yourselves - you are on the eve of a devastating psychological upheaval - all your pet… — Mina Loy Copy Share Image
Despite the illusion of giving understanding, what seeing through photographs really invites is an acquisitive relation to the world that nourishes aesthetic… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“But when fundamentals are doubted, as at present, we must try to recover the candour and wonder of the child; the unspoilt… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Have you ever had a dream that you were certain was real, only to wake up and realize that everyone and everything… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
If you are not a skater, you probably can't imagine what I mean. I could try to tell you by saying it's… — Sonja Henie Copy Share Image
The peculiarity of sculpture is that it creates a three-dimensional object in space. Painting may strive to give on a two-dimensional plane,… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
People create the illusion of acting natural, which is what I think most documentarians do in part because of the direct cinema… — Joshua Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Drizzt Do'Urden had followed a line of precepts based upon discipline and ultimate optimism. He fought for a better world because he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One can't write a weird story of real power without perfect psychological detachment from the human scene, and a magic prism of… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The camera does not know what it takes; it captures materials with which you reconstruct, not so much what you saw as… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Stupidity is not the lack of knowledge, but the illusion of having it.” — Grigore Iulian Copy Share Image
I'm under no illusion. There are lots of male singers out there with raspy voices. — Lewis Capaldi Copy Share Image
I began to feel that if religion was either an illusion or a revelation, it was simpler to accept it as an… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
No pleassure, no expressions just an illusion of what should of but wasnt. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull. — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
If you can break the illusion that you are separate and begin to experience the oneness of the existence, that is yoga. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
“Where do we people go if not towards the perfection of our own illusion? ” — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
“Because an illusion is an illusion. Reality always exists despite the facade.” — Kasie West Copy Share Image
It's a prison for your mind. We are all trapped. It makes me so sad to know that some people will never… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To lose weight, spend time at the gym. To appear like you’ve lost weight, spend time with people who are bigger than… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Our fears are more numerous than our dangers, and we suffer more in our imagination than in reality. — Seneca Copy Share Image
“I’ll take away your disillusionment, and replace it with an illusion.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Immortality is a ridiculous illusion, an empty word, a butterfly net chasing the wind. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The boundary between ourselves and other people and between ourselves and Nature, is illusion. Oneness is reality. — Charlene Spretnak Copy Share Image
The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
