And the more he was irritated by her basic personality, the more he was drawn to her by a harsh, bestial sensuality,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The great cosmic illusion is a hierophany.... One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
The closure of the book is an illusion largely created by its materiality, its cover. Once the book is considered on the… — Susan Stewart Copy Share Image
As long as we prioritize material truths over spiritual truths we will live in tyranny because we are living an illusion — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
“A promotion is an illusionary solution out of an indebted employee’s pit of debt.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Soul mates' are fiction and an illusion; and while every young man and young woman will seek with all diligence and prayerfulness… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
One of my principal concerns is the contradiction between appearance and reality - illusion and reality. I try to set up an… — Stuart Pearson Wright Copy Share Image
The trick was looking past the illusion, because the exit was never as far away as it seemed. — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
Although our package of skin and bones looks very convincing, it is a mask, an illusion, disguising our true self, which has… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I nothing had, and yet enough for youth--Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth. Give unrestrained, the old emotion, The bliss that… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
Trump's junk economics is the illusion that if we cut the taxes on the wealthiest brackets, it'll all trickle down. But it… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Everything, husband, wife, or even the body, is only illusory. These are all shackles of illusion. Unless you can free yourself from… — Sarada Devi Copy Share Image
I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I see not… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
All that happens is the cause of all that happens. Causes are numberless; the idea of a sole cause is an illusion. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Symons remarked that the most common and unhelpful illusion plaguing those who came to see him was the idea that they ought… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“A story is nothing but a lie. An illusion. And that illusion only works if we trust in it.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love the idea I can go off with a single camera and a few rolls of film unencumbered... I was not… — Eve Arnold Copy Share Image
