“That's what stories do. They connect the random dots of life into a picture. But it's all an illusion. Just try to… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
What I'm really trying to say is that I believed an armed insurrection could work. After I was shot and went to… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
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“To believe the non-Self’s intent as the Self’s intent is indeed an illusion. To believe that ‘I am the doer’; where the… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“We conditioned souls have taken shelter of the material body, which is full of troubles and miseries. Foolish people cannot understand the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills… — Alfred Tarski Copy Share Image
But the fact of it was that I liked it out there, a ruin devoid of human vanities, clean of human illusions,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Whatever may be your desire to accomplish great deeds, the deep silence of pregnancy never comes to you! The event of the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Our self (Soul) is maya (an illusion) where it is merely individual and finite, where it considers its separateness as absolute; it… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
People I know who succeed don't mind working. Those who are competent seem to like doing things well -- not stopping because… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
If you know that everything comes from the mind, don't become attached. Once attached, you're unaware. But once you see your own… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Ask most people who live in a home and have a mortgage on it whether they own their own home and the… — Dambisa Moyo Copy Share Image
An Animated Cartoon Theology: 1. People are animals. 2. The body is mortal and subject to incredible pain. 3. Life is antagonistic… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Comedy, when it works, is light on its feet and has the illusion of complete spontaneity: as if there is no film,… — David Dobkin Copy Share Image
“No matter how many times audience has already applauded, the sound of their applause will get louder with the better quality of… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Through being "right", you feel superior and through feeling superior you strengthen your sense of self. In reality, of course, you are… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Since everything is but an illusion, Perfect in being what it is, Having nothing to do with good or bad, Acceptance or… — Longchen Rabjam Copy Share Image
The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening our own, is to get over the confusion by which… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
The one wholly true thought one can hold about the past is that it is not here. To think about it at… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
The idea that political freedom can be preserved in the absence of economic freedom, and vice versa, is an illusion. Political freedom… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Because people don't understand what computing is about, they think they have it in the iPhone, and that illusion is as bad… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
“What an utter disgrace it would be to find something truly magic and spend any time at all pretending and trying to… — Tyler Knott Gregson Copy Share Image
There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion… — George Washington Copy Share Image
What is society but an individual? [] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
This is a prayer, inchoate and unfinished, for you, my love, my loss, my lesion, a rosary of words to count out… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
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I open myself genuinely to all people by being willing to fully communicate my deepest feelings, since hiding in any degree keep… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
The mind has its illusions as the sense of sight; and in the same manner that the sense of feeling corrects the… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
“Klara has always known she’s meant to be a bridge: between reality and illusion, the present and the past, this world and… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
It is no use dealing with illusions and make-believes. We must look at the facts. The world ... is too dangerous for… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
(...)normalcy is an illusion. Each person is utterly unique. A standard of normalcy is something that most people of the world simply… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
I fell victim to the temptation of every autobiographer, to the illusion that since the past exists only in one's memories and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
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