Realize all this as illusion, realize that within the illusion is the Real. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“As often happens between people who have chosen different ways, each of them, while rationally justifying the other's activity, despised it in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I'm not a big believer in the power of more regulation to fix things. I think it can almost be more dangerous… — Bethany McLean Copy Share Image
Imagine: You've spent all day traipsing around London, lost in a maze of chaos, trying to find a hidden illusion; you've been… — Kevin Brooks Copy Share Image
Are you looking for something real in this world of illusions? Call me. Casual Flings need not apply. I am looking for… — Aprilynne Pike Copy Share Image
Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
Its really easy to get colors right. Its really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a… — Donna Karan Copy Share Image
No battle is ever won ... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
In you is the illusion of each day. You arrive like the dew to the cupped flowers. You undermine the horizon with… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Marx's own illusion was to think that the working class movement, which he devoted his life to creating and strengthening, would both… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“Life isn't all perpetual bliss, nor is it one woeful weeping session. But you can concentrate so hard on noticing moments of… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
It is my experience that marriage does not make one happier. It destroys the illusion that has been the essence of one's… — Paula Modersohn-Becker Copy Share Image
I called the world of phenomena an illusion, I called my eyes and my tongue an accident, valueless phenomena. No, that is… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I fell victim to the temptation of every autobiographer, to the illusion that since the past exists only in one's memories and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Making reality real is art's responsibility. It is a practical assignment, then, a self-assignment: to achieve, by a cultivated sensitivity for observing… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
We enjoy this illusion of continuity and we call it memory. Which explains, perhaps, why our worst fear isn't the end of… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion. — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
Take all the Syrians, for example. They are where they need to be. They don't need saving. They are having their experiences… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Science is a contemplative possession of reality through exclusion of all illusion, error and ignorance. — Georges Canguilhem Copy Share Image
What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind… — Jean-Claude Van Damme Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think death is a greater awareness than life. Life gives us the illusion of immortality, whereas death gives us the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
