“There is no cure for illusion. There is only the opportunity for discovery.” — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
We don't believe other people's experiences can tell us all that much about our own. I think this is an illusion of… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Part of my reason for 'Session 9' was to break out, to destroy the illusion of me as 'Mr. Romantic Comedy Guy.' — Brad Anderson Copy Share Image
There's so many different types of illusions; our lives are an illusion in a sense. — Jihae Copy Share Image
It is the illusion of knowledge, not ignorance, that keeps one from growing. — Jerry Uelsmann Copy Share Image
Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are… — Esther Meynell Copy Share Image
The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I've never been under the illusion that everybody on death row is innocent - far from it. My own guess is upwards… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
The dilemma of Brechtian performance is that, for all of Brecht's emphasis on rationality and the undermining of theatrical illusion, the actor… — Philip Auslander Copy Share Image
Tribalism is a social form which can exist at any level of technology. It's a complete illusion to associate it with low… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
That is the essence and mission of 'rebel buddha': to free us from the illusions we create by ourselves, about ourselves, and… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Copy Share Image
At the moment you're suffering from what we call Maya. Maya is illusion. Maya is a Sanskrit word that suggests that we… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves. — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be… — Johann Most 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
People like Jesus Christ, the Buddha, and other walking masters who have moved through the earth have demonstrated that understanding that they… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I was stuck in the feeling that one did not--was not justified in being alive unless one was fulfilling other people's dreams,… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
To let go of the illusion that I'm in control is an important lesson, because I tend to be a person who… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
Once we're able to see this world as an illusion and a phantasm, then we can see everything that happens to us… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
We have these earthly bodies. We don't know what they want. Half the time, we pretend they are under our mental thumb,… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Often, I feel like a cheap imitation aesthetically looks better to me than the real, out-of-reach thing. It's amazing that brands create… — Hunx Copy Share Image
“do not let your life become a compelling illusion of reality that feels like it” — F.J. Nanic Copy Share Image
“Give royal treatment to your original magic effects, because one of the effects might make you the king of magic.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion. — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
“Looking around there is nothing but illusion Everything is drowned in the oceans of illusion” — Rixa White Copy Share Image
I had to learn how to dress and create an optical illusion where you're more slender. — Lydia Hearst Copy Share Image
Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Romantic Love is only an Illusion. A story one makes up in One's Mind about Another Person. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“In this world that is an illusion, every emotion is real. In this world that is real, every truth is illusory.” — Anand Neelakantan Copy Share Image
The "end of a world" never is and never can be anything but the end of an illusion — Rene Guenon Copy Share Image
Let there be no illusions. The Communion is broken and fragmented. The Communion will break. — Peter Akinola Copy Share Image
The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free. — Laura Anne Gilman Copy Share Image
No one thinks Las Vegas is real; it is illusion, but visitors willingly suspend disbelief and pretend. — Hal Rothman Copy Share Image
Most magic is a trick, an illusion. But [when The Beatles played the Ed Sullivan Show], this was real. Man oh man,… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
Our greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin. — John Cudahy Copy Share Image
“...for if a woman's body can attract the holy angels, how much more the unholy man.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
''There is no truth it is an illusion created by the mind to control your thoughts and perception'' — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image