Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Every once in a while, magicians strike gold. David Regal has created and produced the perfect close-up illusion. — Jim Steinmeyer Copy Share Image
No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Anger is how we seek to create an illusion of control where we feel none.” — Nussbaum Copy Share Image
A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion… — Ben Katchor Copy Share Image
The world, life and human beings are only an illusion, a phantom, a dream image. — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Religion is an illusion and every illusion has the inevitable destiny of a soap bubble! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Fantasy novels give this illusion that the stakes are as high as they feel when you're a teenager. But I think for… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
Ministry is a very confronting service. It does not allow people to live with illusions of immortality and wholeness. It keeps reminding… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
It is a curious fact that of all the illusions that beset mankind none is quite so curious as that tendency to… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Waves are everywhere in the existence of time, matters and beyond everything as well which is defined as an illusion. If we… — Tanveer Hossain Mullick Copy Share Image
Anytime there's separatism going on. It happens all the time, because the illusion before us is that we are separate. It gives… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
But the world is out there, and it understands that the illusion of knowledge and freedom is not the same as the… — Aimee Carter Copy Share Image
Globalisation has obliterated distance, not just physically but also, most dangerously, mentally. It creates the illusion of intimacy when, in fact, the… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
“Love is a challenge with an illusion emanating an aura of otherness. Through their unrelenting attention, two smitten people can arouse a… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
For what we suppose to be our love or our jealousy is never a single, continuous and indivisible passion. It is composed… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
For ever and ever, we say when we are young, or in our prayers. Twice, we say it. Old One, do we… — Susan Cooper Copy Share Image
Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
One of the truths about the world is that there are two superpowers, one a huge power which happens to have its… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Jehovah, the Christian name for God derived from the Hebrew Yahweh, (from the letters YHWH), is translated as "I AM." YOU ARE… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“Familiarity can provide the misguided illusion of understanding. Assume nothing.” — Truth Devour Copy Share Image
Existence an illusion from which we peel shard after shard of reality. — Mariana Fulger Copy Share Image
“Beauty is an illusionary concept because the valley beyond always appears more beautiful.” — Amit Abraham Copy Share Image
What the neurology tells us is that the self consists of many components, and the notion of one unitary self may well… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
The seduction of safety is always more dangerous than the illusion of uncertainty. — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
The anoretic operates under the astounding illusion that she can escape the flesh, and, by association, the realm of emotions. — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“They’ll maintain the shallow illusion of success & happiness, no matter what happens.” — Peace Copy Share Image
“We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion.” — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Men have the illusion of having a duty to make the world spin properly, which is precisely what makes it wobble. — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
“The illusion reflected within the mirror whispered a door of returning daydreams...” — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
When we make purchases on credit, they give us only an illusion of prosperity. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Forgiving the past means remembering the love there, and releasing all the rest as the illusion that it really was. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“It is just an illusion of freedom. We are, perhaps, as free as a railway carriage.” — Venugopal Gupta Copy Share Image
It is an illusion to think that the matter cannot be resolved through words. — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
If the Internet can be described as a giant human consciousness, then viral marketing is the illusion of free will. — George Pendle Copy Share Image
