Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists. — Antonio Machado Copy Share Image
Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that none can "save" his fellow man by making a choice for him. To help him, he can indicate the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I think that the Oscar gives you some kind of guts or something, it gives you the illusion that you can do… — Benicio Del Toro Copy Share Image
Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting its outer trappings, or he will… — C.S. Friedman Copy Share Image
Bright and illustrious illusions! Who can blame, who laugh at the boy, who not admire and commend him, for that desire of… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life led by human beings; the second was that human… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. I don't know what a… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
The secret to gaining the upper hand in a negotiation is to give the other side the illusion of control. Don't try… — Christopher Voss Copy Share Image
Kindness is not an illusion and violence is not a rule. The true resting state of human affairs is not represented by… — Paul Rusesabagina Copy Share Image
“...behind the scene, under the surface of reality, you are all actors, marvelously skilled at playing parts and in getting lost in… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
If these distracted times prove anything, they prove that the greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions.… — John Cudahy Copy Share Image
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. To live a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The novels that attract me most... are those that create an illusion of transperancy around a knot of human relationships as obscure,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I never enquire into the origin of things, all Origin is a fallacy (in this I follow Nietzsche: origin is a very… — Agustin Fernandez Mallo Copy Share Image
There is a notion that existence is an illusion. Existence is not an illusion. Existence is a projection from the inner through… — Barry Long Copy Share Image
I don't try to be clever at all. The idea that I could see what no one else can is an illusion. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“If ego & illusory attachments (myness) leave, then one can attain moksha (ultimate liberation).” — Dada Bhagwan 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
