Cheap food is an illusion. There is no such thing as cheap food. The real cost of the food is paid somewhere.… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I'm an ambitious self-publicist out of necessity. I've never been one to miss an opportunity because I've never had any illusions about… — Stuart Pearson Wright Copy Share Image
What it turns out is that we think we're multitasking, but we're not. The brain is sequential tasking: we flit from one… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
I formulated the theme behind 'The Grand Illusion' album after observing how American culture creates illusions through advertising and entertainment to convince… — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share Image
Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow. It is like lightning and thunder. They occur simultaneously,… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
This election [2016] will determine whether America is a free nation or whether we have only the illusion of democracy, but are… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
It is an illusion to suppose that a Dictator makes himself; at most he seizes an opportunity made for him by passive,… — Susan Stebbing Copy Share Image
I have no illusions. Of course, Russia is massively upgrading its military. We know that Russia is pursuing a policy of expansion.… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
As bank customers, we tend to believe that we can have both perfect security for our money, drawing on it whenever we… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The old freedom sufficiently survives in the mind of the wage earner to give him the illusion that, while accepting insurance and… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The necessity for power is obvious, because life cannot be lived without order; but the allocation of power is arbitrary because all… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Imagine: you've spent all day traipsing round London, lost in a maze of chaos, trying to find a hidden illusion; you've been… — Kevin Brooks Copy Share Image
Of all the islands he'd visited, two stood out. The island of the past, he said, where the only time was past… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The desert and the ocean are realms of desolation on the surface. The desert is a place of bones, where the innards… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
When we are in the grasp of illusion - or, for that matter, whenever we have a new idea - instead of… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
“Histories, chronologies and almanacs offer us the illusion of progress, even though, over and over again, we are given proof that there… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
We favor the simple expression of the complex thought. We are for the large shape because it has the impact of the… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
You go on being reincarnated until you reach the actual Truth. Heaven and Hell are just a state of mind. We are… — George Harrison 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
Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world--the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law.… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Clothing creates the illusion that bodies fit an aesthetically pleasing norm. And that illusion depends on getting the fit right. Garments that… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Read day and night, devour books—these sleeping pills—not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Human beings have illusions. The enlightened don't have illusions. They see things as they are, and in that seeing, they see ecstasy… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Everyone you meet in your life - even total strangers - are already intimately connected to you. The idea that we are… — Steve Pavlina Copy Share Image
It's overwhelming. I feel as if I am living in an illusion a dream where all things are possible. Amazing things do… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
“If I know this, I ought to be able to escape the stupider kinds of illusion. The absolute nature of things is… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
All order, I've come to understand, is theoretical, unreal, a harmless, sensible, smiling mask men slide between the two great, dark realities,… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
I think it's an injustice that most consumers going to the supermarket have so few options for fruit and vegetables to feed… — Bryant Terry Copy Share Image
When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame, abandoned by a fantasy. …People fancy they are enjoying… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The way you're singing in your sleep The way you look before you leap The strange illusions that you keep You don't… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Humility does not live in the prison of illusion that says that this world is a dark and terrible place. Those perceptions… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It seems to me, that the only Objects of the abstract Sciences or of Demonstration is Quantity and Number, and that all… — David Hume Copy Share Image
[O]ne of the greatest difficulties encountered in bringing about favorable change is this almost inescapable illusion that there is a perduring, unique,… — Harry Stack Sullivan Copy Share Image
“For it was through books that she felt her life to be unjudged Look at all of the great mix-ups, messes, confinement,… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When you are young, you enjoy a sustained illusion that sooner or later something marvelous is going to happen, that you are… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
That's the question: is truth an illusion, or is illusion truth, or are they essentially the same? Myself, I don't care what… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
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