The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
The least livable life is the one without coherence-nothing connects, nothing means anything. Stories make connections. They allow us to see our… — Daniel Taylor Copy Share Image
I don't criticize political or electoral freedom, but capitalism's perversion of the concept: the illusion that I hold the power over my… — Renata Salecl Copy Share Image
I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control. — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
There is no more dangerous illusion than the fancies by which people try to avoid illusion. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
No doubt the truth is hard to come by for those who do not like the sound of it - dreams and… — Anatoli Granovsky Copy Share Image
I just think, as a model, it's taught me to be a master of deception and illusion. — Tyra Banks Copy Share Image
Did you know that the heart has no pain receptors? So the next time someone breaks you heart, move on. Your pain… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Ash Wednesday is full of joy...The source of all sorrow is the illusion that of ourselves we are anything but dust. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“How impossible it is to forget the stories we tell ourselves, even when the truth should supersede them.” — Stephanie Danler Copy Share Image
And what would happen to my illusion that I am a force for order in the home if I wasn't married to… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
We have the illusion of freedom only because so few ever try to exercise it. Try it sometime. Try to save your… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
It is the shared bad faith by which individuals help each other sustain the illusion that they can shirk their spiritual destiny… — Merold Westphal Copy Share Image
Mothers support certain illusions about their children, and one of my illusions was that I liked who I was, because she did.… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I actually feel sorry for people who have a lot of illusions in their head about what gay is. I mean, I… — Richard Chamberlain Copy Share Image
When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself...that a tiger is an optical illusion--well, he will find out he is… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
We continue to have this illusion that things outside of us aren't driving what we think and believe, when in fact so… — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
What they say about a breakthrough is completely an illusion. They are sending their warplanes to fly very low in order to… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Copy Share Image
Would we as a nation be better off dealing with the truth rather than believing fantasies that prop up the Status Quo… — Charles Hugh Smith Copy Share Image
The trust of the mass population can no longer be taken for granted, and any continuation of the 'grand illusion' is dangerous… — Richard Edelman Copy Share Image
The ‘equilibrium’ that people see in me is really an illusion. I am as flawed as anyone. It’s only that I seem… — Erich Segal Copy Share Image
How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs. — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing… — Socrates Copy Share Image
