The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
What can we say to people who think that dreams are the real world and this one is an illusion. Perhaps they're… — Lothaire Bluteau Copy Share Image
But the more these conscious illusions of the ruling class are shown to be false and the less they satisfy common sense,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Are we all not, when we sit in the cinema, in the position of humans in The Matrix, tied to chairs, immersed… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Reality, for all intents and purposes, is just life - the real world, pure and uncut, shot straight to the vein of… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
However much you paid for a beautiful illusion, you got a bargain. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Speculative markets have always been vulnerable to illusion. But seeing the folly in markets provides no clear advantage in forecasting outcomes, because… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
Stay away from national polls. They are always an illusion. They will always trick you into stupid political behavior. — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
Never content just to be, America is also obliged to mean; America signifies, hence its constant and riveting vulnerability to illusion. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
This is the time for us to just let go, to breathe, to come into our hearts, and know everything is in… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
Evil company is always to be shunned; because it leads to lust and anger, illusion, forgetfulness of the goal, destruction of the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I looked into the vast dome of blue emptiness that stretched out above me in all directions and the illusion was still… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The boundary between ourselves and other people and between ourselves and Nature, is illusion. Oneness is reality. — Charlene Spretnak Copy Share Image
You are traveling and see these people shooting the entire experience of going through a city, and maybe in the back of… — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
Dialogue must appear realistic without being so. Actual realism-the lifting, as it were, of passages from a stenographer's take-down of a 'real… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“The truth, my friend, is an awesome thing, to be handled with wisdom and with courage denied to ordinary people. Most of… — Ruth Tessler Goldstein Copy Share Image
To swear day and night by media slander will make one a bigger victim than the slandered. It doesn't take much to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The collaboration which sometimes follows is seldom based on good will: usually on desire, rage, fear, pity or longing. The modern illusion… — John Berger Copy Share Image
I am almost certain that space and time are illusions. These are primitive notions that will be replaced by something more sophisticated. — Nathan Seiberg Copy Share Image
I don't believe in competing, because there's room for everyone. You have to compete with yourself, because your duty to grow as… — Juan Gabriel Copy Share Image