A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
In Lullabies, I wanted to capture what I remembered of the drunken babbling of unfortunate twelve-year-olds: their illusions, their ludicrously bad choices,… — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
The boys think they can all be athletes, and the girls think they can all be singers. That's the way to fame… — Kristin Hunter Copy Share Image
Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Each of us, I suppose needs his illusions. Life after death. A maker of planets. A woman to love, a man to… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Affairs can be powerful detonators. They can invigorate a marriage that's flat, jolt people out of years of complacency. Fear of loss… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
So much of this world is based on illusion, temporaries, and disposability that I think it's essential that our closest relationships reflect… — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
“But only in order to know if you, as you really are now, see yourself as you once were with all the… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
When I reflect upon what I have seen, what I have heard, what I have done, I can hardly persuade myself that… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
What, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call thought, that we must thus make it the model… — David Hume Copy Share Image
What if there were no grownups? Suppose the whole idea of grownups was an illusion? What if their money was really just… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
He was a physicist, more precisely an astrophysicist, diligent and eager but without illusions: the Truth lay beyond, inaccessible to our telescopes,… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Comedy is deemed inferior to tragedy primarily because of the social prevalence of narcissistic pathology. In other words people who are too… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I saw clearly that the idea of the self—of distinction, of me, of an inner and outer—is just an illusion,” he said,… — Emily Esfahani Smith Copy Share Image
Whoever said having children makes a comedian safer and less dark is an idiot. Having a baby has filled my whole life… — Richard Herring Copy Share Image
Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Your true being, as Consciousness, is ever at peace, ever at rest, eternally existing in the dimension of here and now. It… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Like Musa you too will be saved from the Sea. Just look through it and see Him. Then the illusion will crumble… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
Britain's independent possession of nuclear weapons has turned into a political touchstone for commitment to national defense, but this is an illusion. — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
The top end are still making bucket loads while maintaining the illusion of the American dream: that if you work hard enough,… — Anohni Copy Share Image
Photography is a relative illusion and film is a literal illusion of speeding multiple images. It's something outside of our perception but… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
When totalitarian regimes are established, they at least have the illusion of the single-minded purpose. But once they establish the stature that's… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the one unanswerable question in life is why so many of us choose to live in a fantasy world of our… — Ashavan Copy Share Image
It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
We in Europe must not indulge the illusion that we could shut ourselves away from the world if it goes to pieces,… — Frank-Walter Steinmeier Copy Share Image
We live under the illusion that organizations are 'them' when, in reality, they are 'us.' If we wish to work in evolved… — Lance Secretan Copy Share Image
I don't really think I am the most beautiful woman in the world at all. If I can create some illusion to… — Jayne Mansfield Copy Share Image
I'm gregarious with writers and never with manuscripts . . . I [like to] create the illusion of seamless perfection, so I… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, for the vast majority of us, a vast majority of the time, we surrender our true autonomy to this illusion of… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The more we retreat from the culture at large the more room we will have to carve out lives of meaning, the… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
True love means you love the real person, not an ideal that you have in your head and superimpose over them. That's… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
I'm a huge John Hughes fan, and I grew up in the '80s, when his films came out. So, my introduction to… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
The necessity of loyalty between friends, the responsibility that the strong owe the infirm, the illusion of ill-gotten gain, the rewards of… — Michael Dorris Copy Share Image
People are under the illusion that it's easy...Technically, it is complex. You have a million options with equipment to distract you. I… — Brett Weston Copy Share Image
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