“How disquieting to realise that reality is an illusion, at best a democratisation of perception based on participant consensus.” — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Bodybuilding is about making oneself seem larger than life. It's about creating the illusion of perfection. — Mariah Nelson Copy Share Image
“Any kind of misery there is in the worldly life; the cause of it all is moha (illusory attachement).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I'm the luckiest man in the world - performing 500 shows a year and loving what I do - illusion IS my… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
“It was more about understanding that you could give it your all, give yourself the best chances, but control is an illusion.” — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion. — Judith Guest Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the one unanswerable question in life is why so many of us choose to live in a fantasy world of our… — Ashavan Copy Share Image
“Your true being, as Consciousness, is ever at peace, ever at rest, eternally existing in the dimension of here and now. It… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Like Musa you too will be saved from the Sea. Just look through it and see Him. Then the illusion will crumble… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
The top end are still making bucket loads while maintaining the illusion of the American dream: that if you work hard enough,… — Anohni Copy Share Image
Britain's independent possession of nuclear weapons has turned into a political touchstone for commitment to national defense, but this is an illusion. — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
Whoever said having children makes a comedian safer and less dark is an idiot. Having a baby has filled my whole life… — Richard Herring Copy Share Image
Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I don't really think I am the most beautiful woman in the world at all. If I can create some illusion to… — Jayne Mansfield Copy Share Image
The inward persuasion that we are free to do, or not to do a thing, is but a mere illusion. If we… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Continuously, we have to fight to defeat the primitive tendency towards the glorification of arms, the adulation of force, born of the… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Parenting is not logical. If it were, we would never have to read a book, never need a family therapist, and never… — Jeanne Elium Copy Share Image
'By convention there is color, by convention sweetness, by convention bitterness, but in reality there are atoms and the void,' announced Democritus.… — Edward Robert Harrison Copy Share Image
“The consciousness inhabiting your body is exactly the same as the consciousness inhabiting my body. We are one. The delusion that we… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
There is something within me that might be illusion as it is often case with young delighted people, but if I would… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“they say that everything in the world is an illusion, that it’s not real. but how’s it an illusion? who’d say those… — li hongzhi Copy Share Image
“Tomorrow is like 'there.' Once you get 'there,' it is called 'here.' So, technically, life is a set of Todays.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
But when I faced you in my blank confusion, I realized you weren't wrong, it was a mere illusion. — Daft Punk Copy Share Image
... love was an illusion which civilization had produced to give a little order to the frequency of the sex act. — Christer Kihlman Copy Share Image
“With the illusion that we have dominion over the earth we conclude we have nothing to fear.” — Laurence Gonzales Copy Share Image
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Seeing through illusion is true fortune As we banish the waves of distortion.” — Clarissa Simmens Copy Share Image
If we venture beyond the pale of Scripture, we are...exposed to all the illusions of imagination and enthusiasm. — John Newton Copy Share Image
Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours. — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
I think many people have an illusion of success based on entering in at a level that's higher than their experiences. — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion. — Derek Jarman Copy Share Image
Our normal sense of the person as a lonely island of consciousness, is a dramatic illusion based on theological imagery. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“Like the moon shining bright Up high with all its grace, I can only show you at night And hide half of… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
“The search for meaning is an illusion of logic and a requirement of the middleclass for predictable breeding space.” — Christopher S. Hyatt Copy Share Image
Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
But glittering prizes and endless compromises, Shatter the illusion of integrity... — Neil Peart Copy Share Image