“Indeed, there seems to be some evidence not only that all love is based on illusion — but that love positively requires… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
Humility sets us free to do what is really good, by showing us our illusions and withdrawing our will from what was… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts on saving… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
We fall into states of illusion - we forget all this. We get caught up in desires, frustrations, political movements, philosophies, religions,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Prosperity or egalitarianism -- you have to choose. I favor freedom -- you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
From experience, I came to learn that ayahuasca bestows upon the user knowledge about a variety of topics, not only consciousness and… — Pablo Amaringo Copy Share Image
I don't criticize political or electoral freedom, but capitalism's perversion of the concept: the illusion that I hold the power over my… — Renata Salecl Copy Share Image
Either Christianity is true or it's false. If you bet that it's true, and you believe in God and submit to Him,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Justice is always naive and self-confident; believing that it will immediately win once recognized. That is the reason why the forces of… — Vladimir Bukovsky Copy Share Image
I confess to feeling continued ambivalence about political life, aware of its shortcomings and disappointments, but drawn back to it again and… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
When you want to take over a city, you have to destroy the illusion of safety it provides. You have to hit… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Most of us fail to appreciate the extent to which our behavior is under situational control, because we prefer to believe that… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
The indispensability of reason does not imply that individual people are always rational or are unswayed by passion and illusion. It only… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Each of us believes himself to live directly within the world that surrounds him, to sense its objects and events precisely, and… — Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle Copy Share Image
Contemplation in the age of Auschwitz and Dachau, Solovky and Karaganda is something darker and more fearsome than contemplation in the age… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Illusory vision (mithyatva) shows inconvenience and Right vision (samyak drashti), the vision of the Self (atma drashti) turns inconvenience into convenience.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
In meditation, when your thoughts are stopped, you become empty. When you are empty, your mind folds back on itself and you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Giving up the illusion that you can predict the future is a very liberating moment. All you can do is give yourself… — John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley Copy Share Image
Everything is an illusion; that is the whole thing about it - illusion, immitation, a mirage. It makes me too sad. Its… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
Because of the illusion. You fall in love, it's intoxicating, and for a little while, you actually feel like you've become one… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes. — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
It's really easy to get colors right. It's really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a… — Donna Karan Copy Share Image
“...a time that is is neither day nor night, when the veil of illusion is thinner and we can see things in… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
If choices and decisions derive from hidden mental processes, then free choice is either an illusion or, at minimum, more tightly constrained… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“In this world that is an illusion, every emotion is real. In this world that is real, every truth is illusory. Nothing… — Anand Neelakantan Copy Share Image
Our greatest illusion is disillusion. We imagine that we are disillusioned with life, when the truth is that we have not even… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a personal contact between embryonic, incomplete persons (ourselves) and the utterly concrete Person. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
So many people seem to imagine that because the actual tools of writing are easily accessible, it is less difficult than the… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
I've looked at life from both sides now...from win and lose, and still somehow it's life's illusions I recall I really don't… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A woman can't be, until a girl dies. . . . I mean the sprites that girls are, so different from us,… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
The democratic concept of man is false, because it is Christian. The democratic concept holds that . . . each man is… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what… — Edith Head Copy Share Image
Tutelage is a comfortable relationship for the senior partner, but it is demoralizing in the long run. It breeds illusions of omniscience… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
People who cling to their illusions find it difficult, if not impossible, to learn anything worth learning: a people under the necessity… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do not feel that you are destined to enlightenment in this life. You have no idea. This is an illusion of selfhood.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I thought poetry could change everything, could change history and could humanize, and I think that the illusion is very necessary to… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“ça ressemble au bonheur, on dirait du bonheur, mais ce n'est pas du bonheur. On devrait être heureux, on ne l'est pas;… — Frédéric Beigbeder Copy Share Image
