The beast is the modern world that we live in! The material world. The physical world. The world of illusion that we… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“Everything in the world is maya, an illusion. The ultimate truth one has to realise is that we actually need nothing. Because… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
It's what we live for, to be able to make great illusions. The thing about 'Entourage' is everything we do is realistic.… — Adrian Grenier Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with creating jobs. What's wrong is to seed the illusion that you will magically bring back the economy of… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
The illusions it had woven for me had taken place only in my head. The battle had been invisible to the naked… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets,… — David Knopfler Copy Share Image
All religions, all this singing, one song. The differences are just illusion and vanity. The sun’s light looks a little different on… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I think men can really get in the way when you are trying to sort your life out and get on with… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I don't believe there's anything in life you can't go back and fix. The ancient Vedas - the oldest Hindu philosophy -… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
Many other means there be, that promise the foreknowledge of things to come: besides the raising up and conjuring of ghosts departed,… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Globalization is a reality. And this makes most leaders today realize that populist illusions can't be sustained before they collapse into stagnation… — Fernando Henrique Cardoso Copy Share Image
It may be that we exist and cease to exist in alternations, like the minute dots in some forms of toned printing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Keynesian prescription for unemployment rests on the persistence of a 'money illusion' among workers, i.e., on the belief that while, through… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
I used to think things were the way they are for a reason, that there was some hidden meaning. I used to… — Delphine de Vigan Copy Share Image
The work of adult life is not easy. As in childhood, each step presents not only new tasks of development but requires… — Gail Sheehy 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
Gone is the blinding glow in his hands - gone, too, is the illusion of purity and beauty! In it's place all… — Dave Sim Copy Share Image
I recently got into Haiku in Japan and I just think it's fantastic. Obviously, when you get rid of a whole section… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
“With the illusion stripped away, I could see that we were part of an ocean of light. We are light flowing, moving,… — Jonathan Talat Phillips Copy Share Image
In quitting this strange world he has once again preceded me by a little. That doesn't mean anything. For those of us… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“To know a thing does not always enable us to prevent it, but at least the things we know we do hold,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The curious fascination in this job [U.S. representative] is the illusion that either you are being useful or you could be --… — Millicent Fenwick Copy Share Image
“Dreams aren't only an illusion to put you into a subconsciously pleasurable state of mind for the time being, but also a… — Mehek Bassi Copy Share Image
Not so deep down, we all know that safety is an illusion, that only character melds us together. That’s why most of… — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
I have few illusions: the cause is lost in advance. As for me, I do my part, which is to drag a… — Rene Magritte Copy Share Image
Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales.… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
I would say that love today is a relatively rare phenomenon, that we have a great deal of sentimentality; we have a… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Being famous gives you a lot of illusions of false self, of self-importance, a grandiosity, it becomes difficult to stay humble and… — Lili Taylor Copy Share Image
Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world… — Sai Baba Copy Share Image
The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
Change from the inside out involves a steadfast gaze upon our Lord that's life changing because it reflects a deep turning from… — Larry Crabb Copy Share Image
“And if time is not real, then the dividing line that seems to lie between this world and eternity, between suffering and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Everything goes through the cycle of birth, growth, maturation, decay and death. But all of this is an illusion. Everything we see… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Human identity is fundamentally an illusion; it’s an evolutionary overhang which lets us function as coherent self-aware animals. But, on a deep… — Sarah Newton Copy Share Image
“53. 'We mainly suppose the experiential quality to be an intrinsic quality of the physical object'-this is the so-called systematic illusion of… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
A film is one small voice among other large ones. The film is a tiny part of the discourse. You do what… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to my life, and… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
“When you're emotionally weak, but psychically smiling. When you want to be loved but can't be loved. When you try to feel… — Maite 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
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