Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Women, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion. Being fascinated, they fascinate. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I believe in everything. I believe that everything is an illusion, and everything is there to be believed in. — Sushmita Sen Copy Share Image
“Tomorrow is an illusion suggesting that another chance always exists. It is a dangerously false illusion.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead. — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
“Your mother created the world she wanted to live in and she brought you up in it, but she never told you… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my… — Dark Jar Tin Zoo Copy Share Image
One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's… — Ella Maillart Copy Share Image
The problem is, when you're making an animated movie, the studio has an illusion in their minds - and it's really not… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
The motion of the stars over our heads is as much an illusion as that of the cows, trees and churches that… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
Cheap medical care is one of the most expensive things there is. So long as politicians can create the illusion of something… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Encased in an elaborate illusion of unlimited power and progress, each of us subscribes, at least until one’s mid-life crisis, to the… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“We shall live for no reason. Then die and be done with it. What a recognition! What shall save us? Only the… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
The two of you are getting downright chatty, aren't you, Ms. Lane? When did you last see him? what else did he… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
All the manifest forms of existence are but illusions. They are momentary displays of consciousness, flashes of lightening in the sky. They… — Frederick Lenz 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
Contemplation in the age of Auschwitz and Dachau, Solovky and Karaganda is something darker and more fearsome than contemplation in the age… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“What do you mean, 'Angle of Repose?' she asked me when I dreamed we were talking about Grandmother's life, and I said… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“The illusion of free will is so strong in my mind that I can't get away from it, but I believe it… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The indispensability of reason does not imply that individual people are always rational or are unswayed by passion and illusion. It only… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Most of us fail to appreciate the extent to which our behavior is under situational control, because we prefer to believe that… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
Each of us believes himself to live directly within the world that surrounds him, to sense its objects and events precisely, and… — Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle Copy Share Image
Justice is always naive and self-confident; believing that it will immediately win once recognized. That is the reason why the forces of… — Vladimir Bukovsky Copy Share Image
Either Christianity is true or it's false. If you bet that it's true, and you believe in God and submit to Him,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Fear is like a rope, the rope is invisible. We've the choice to live out the illusion. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“What's an illusion only becomes a reality once we allow those things to play on our intelligence.” — Shenica Coleman Copy Share Image
A shattered illusion is a sorrowful experience; but a life without illusion is a sorrowful life — Jose Narosky Copy Share Image
“Control is an illusion, as is restraint. Dark to light, light to darkness.” — Truth Devour Copy Share Image
“This was all just fantasies in the dark, you see, And who was never parading as a clown... Me!” — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
“I realized that no matter how safe a person or place felt, in our world, safety was merely an illusion.” — Yasmine Galenorn Copy Share Image
“Who prays at help in the Illusion of his Life does not understand that his only aid is death” — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“A wise man, recognizing that the world is an illusion, does not act as if it is real, and so he escapes… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
Single vision produces worse illusions than double vision or many-headed monsters. — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
When one sees that everything exists as an illusion, one can live in a higher sphere than ordinary man. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The only real things in life is the unexpected things. Everything else is just an illusion. — Watkin Tudor Jones Copy Share Image
What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I prefer to be someone who has to confront his many fears instead of someone who has the illusion he doesn't fear… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
“It is considered ignorance of the Self (ignorance of I am the soul) where intoxication (that “I Know”, “I am something”) increases.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
