Our democratic societies are in danger. In allowing ourselves to be infiltrated by fear, to be blinded by the passion of identity,… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
In general, a writer would like to think that the best book that he has written is the book that he is… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“Time is an illusion. Sensations are an illusion. Reality, for the most part, is an illusion. The illusion is, perhaps, the most… — Augusto Branco Copy Share Image
Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion. God's love for you… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
One who is publicly honest about himself ends up by priding himself somewhat on this honesty: for he knows only too well… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The illusion that humans possess free will is compounded by the inherent randomness of the universe. Chaos disguised as freedom of choice...” — Henry Lindell Copy Share Image
“Lucien?” “Yes, Alice?” Her heart was pounding, but she willed herself to muster the courage to reach out to him— unpredictable, dangerous… — Gaelen Foley Copy Share Image
In film, you can create the illusion of time and space. People speak; characters reveal their feelings. You can use music, which… — Edward Burtynsky Copy Share Image
I think of the old slavery, and of the way The Economy has now improved upon it. The new slavery has improved… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Sometimes in the evening on Summer days, Even when there’s not a breeze at all, it seems Like there’s a light breeze… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“Live knowing that you are already dust, long gone, already outside time and looking in, reviewing life, finally understanding every déja vu,… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
The 'I' casts off the illusion of the 'I' and yet remains 'I'. Such is the paradox of Self-realization. The Realized do… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Life and death are nothing but the mind. Years, months, days, and hours are nothing but the mind. Dreams, illusions, and mirages… — Dogen Copy Share Image
I know no study which is so unutterably saddening as that of the evolution of humanity, as it is set forth in… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“There is indeed a great deal of futility amongst the human race which we do not commonly see, for it all forms… — Lord Dunsany Copy Share Image
“I wonder if it matters that what they have aimed at is illusion. Their lives are in themselves beautiful. I have an… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It begins with skepticism. The history of human folly, and our own susceptibility to illusions and fallacies, tell us that men and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“The sacred stillness of your brilliant heart has as the myriad wonders masqueraded. But if you knew this secret from the start,… — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
We expect more from technology and less from each other. We create technology to provide the illusion of companionship without the demands… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
The self is fundamentally an illusion arising as a reflection of the soul in matter, much as a clear lake at midnight… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
The drama of the sky dance is enacted nightly on hundreds of farms, the owners of which sigh for entertainment, but harbor… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Pain destroys the illusions of false, that is, elitist pleasures. It burns from the inside out. It, therefore, sensitizes us to what… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
“Death is an illusion. It is the way to rebirth or ascension. It is the point when you realise that you are… — Ana Rangel & Gerry O'malley Copy Share Image
People say I play real loud. I don't, actually. I'm recorded loud and a lot of that is because we have good… — Charlie Watts Copy Share Image
Everything that you see before you with your physical eyes is an illusion. In other words, you are not seeing correctly. Life… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is illusion, the way you see things now, thinking that there is a tomorrow, there is a today, there is time… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
That's the whole burden of this novel - the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world that you… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Societies held together by fear and repression may offer the illusion of stability for a time, but they are built upon fault… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Consciousness is the screen. The images on the screen are your perceptions, the illusion that life is solid, that there is a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Modeling is about illusion. It's a fantasy world where models play various roles. By featuring extreme looks, magazines show women how to… — Cindy Crawford Copy Share Image
“Absolute freedom is an illusion. For while an employed man might be free from starvation, he is a slave to his employer's… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The notion that somehow through a trade war or protectionism or magical thinking that we're going to return to a romanticized economic… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
Everything good is costly, and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A lot of people do that kind of nostalgia stuff believing that they were very happy in their teenage years, but that's… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
It is only when you have become that true Self consciously, when all these illusions have fallen away, that you will be… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The overall concept of 'Only You' is a reflection on the illusion of love, how we confront, understand and manifest our self… — Jihae Copy Share Image
One will never find in the waterfall of sights anything else than the Illusion of Life, which falls in torrents on the… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
