You know the illusion of the cheap money is over and now Britain has to go out there and graft and earn… — George Osborne Copy Share Image
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Human domination over nature is quite simply an illusion, a passing dream by a naive species. It is an illusion that has… — Donald Worster Copy Share Image
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The Virgin filled so enormous a space in the life and thought of the time that one stands now helpless before the… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
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The utter failure came at the Crucifixion in the tragic words, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' If you… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
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“Beauty is an illusion, created by Mother Nature to drive the human species in the path of reproduction. In reality, beauty is… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
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“Life's existential tasks have lost the interest of reality; illusion cannot build a sanctuary for the divine growth of inwardness which ripens… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
When we were small, Rose and I used to play a game called connect the dots. I loved it. I loved drawing… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the enlightenment, that which… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
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It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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That’s the great illusion of travel, of course, the notion that there’s somewhere to get to. A place where you can finally… — David Gilmour Copy Share Image
Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our antimaterialist, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Claridge's is elegant but determinedly unglamorous. The only fantasy it has to offer is the illusion that the world is in good… — Holly Brubach Copy Share Image
I have my dark side. You have your dark side. From the second that we have a brain, there are things that… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
You see, my good friend, how much we are the creatures of situation and circumstance, and with what pliant servility the mind… — Sydney, Lady Morgan Copy Share Image
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She was wearing the same clothes, but now she looked haggard and dirty. The delicate illusions that get us through life can… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Gravity is neither a force nor a consequence of any space-time curvature. It is simply an orderly spatial illusion to non-spatial observer/s. — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
Whenever I see a forecast written out to two decimal places, I cannot help but wonder if there is a misunderstanding of… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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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
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All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter's ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
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