On some level we trade passion for security, that's trading one illusion for another. It's a matter of degree. We can't live… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of… — Tom Stoppard 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
Ministry is a very confronting service. It does not allow people to live with illusions of immortality and wholeness. It keeps reminding… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Fantasy novels give this illusion that the stakes are as high as they feel when you're a teenager. But I think for… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
It is a curious fact that of all the illusions that beset mankind none is quite so curious as that tendency to… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
We line our lives with beautiful things to create a cushion of stability: the illusion of a cohesive past, the promise of… — Holland Cotter Copy Share Image
I call his ['Straight Outta Compton'] story a Disneyland because it's an illusion. It is how he wanted it to be remembered,… — Michel'le Copy Share Image
It is hard to go back into a world that has already been explored, so to speak. And the fans are very… — Philippa Boyens Copy Share Image
We think we're saving time with microwaves, cell phones, beepers, computers and voice mail, but often these things help us create the… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. To live a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Plato spoke of the necessity for divine madness in the poet. It is a frightening thing to open oneself to this strange… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“God and disciple; these are the only two paths of progression in religion. The one and the same entity, when in illusion… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Science is the art of creating suitable illusions which the fool believes or argues against, but the wise man enjoys for their… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Rationalism belongs to the cool observer. But because of the stupidity of the average person, they follow not reason, but faith. This… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Would it be better if religions were to disappear? I have no idea. Since I do not have any confidence in the… — Tim Crane 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
[Hillart Clinton] holds the illusion that we can make fossil fuel safe, and that they are safe, and she established an office… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
America is way too quick to trade freedom for the illusion of security. Whether it's allowing the NSA to go way too… — Erik Prince Copy Share Image
Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness,--these are the threads on the loom of time, these are the lords of life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But the world is out there, and it understands that the illusion of knowledge and freedom is not the same as the… — Aimee Carter Copy Share Image
There has always been, for me, this other world, this second world to fall back on--a more reliable world in so far… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
Anytime there's separatism going on. It happens all the time, because the illusion before us is that we are separate. It gives… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
“Waves are everywhere in the existence of time, matters and beyond everything as well which is defined as an illusion. If we… — Tanveer Hossain Mullick Copy Share Image
Both the old and new physics were dealing with shadow-symbols, but the new physics was forced to be aware of that fact… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists. — Antonio Machado Copy Share Image
He [John F. Kennedy] might have envisioned himself being "alone, at the top" but, like Woodrow Wilson, he would find out that… — Tom Wicker Copy Share Image
You've seen the sun flatten and take strange shapes just before it sinks in the ocean. Do you have to tell yourself… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
If you can create even the illusion of high profitability for a few years, then when the thing collapses you can walk… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
“unless you learn to recognize the false as false — as not you — there can be no lasting transformation, and you… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That's the principle, the… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
“With true understanding, intoxication (that “I Know”, “I am something”) will come down. Intoxication will not come down with wrong understanding.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“As a lamp, a cataract, a star in space an illusion, a dewdrop, a bubble a dream, a cloud, a flash of… — Red Pine Copy Share Image
Jesus came to announce to us that an identity based on success, popularity and power is a false identity- an illusion! Loudly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When it comes to crime, college campuses act as if they are sovereign nations, inside which secret bodies can adjudicate criminal wrongdoing… — S.E. Cupp Copy Share Image
There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self, a secretion of sensory experience and feeling, programmed with total… — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
You're never really playing yourself. You're always acting. It's an illusion that you're really playing yourself. The only time I'm playing myself… — Steve Guttenberg Copy Share Image
“I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
![“I call his ['Straight Outta Compton'] story a Disneyland because it's an illusion. It is how he wanted it to be remembered, so that is how he portrayed it. And he had every right to do that. As did I.” quote by Michel'le](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/01a/michel-le-8055_compton_i-call-his-straight-outta-compton-story_1110822.jpg)
![“[Hillart Clinton] holds the illusion that we can make fossil fuel safe, and that they are safe, and she established an office for fracking. We know who she's taking the money from. We know who the Democratic Party is taking the money from.” quote by Jill Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e8f/jill-stein-660_clinton_hillart-clinton-holds-the-illusion-that_1183027.jpg)
![“He [John F. Kennedy] might have envisioned himself being "alone, at the top" but, like Woodrow Wilson, he would find out that not even a President moves free of human entanglement, human needs, human illusions; not even a President can be independent of those around him.” quote by Tom Wicker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0ec/tom-wicker-42905_entanglement_he-john-f-kennedy-might-have-envisioned_2794897.jpg)
