Such professions as the soldier and the lawyer ... give ample opportunity for crimes but not much for mere illusions. ... If… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The nostalgia of a moment's love can be an illusionary precipice from which we fall from truth; in heartbreak, what we escape… — Mike Norton Copy Share Image
Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
People in general attach too much importance to words. They are under the illusion that talking effects great results. As a matter… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
“There is a great deal of illusion in a work of art; one could go farther and say that it is illusory… — thomas mann Copy Share Image
Must love be ever treated with profaneness as a mere illusion? or with coarseness as a mere impulse? or with fear as… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is abundantly evident that, however natural it may be for us to feel sorrow at the death of our relatives, that… — Charles Webster Leadbeater Copy Share Image
We have indeed been out in space, but some are under the illusion that we have been off Earth. In reality humans… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Suddenly that it was as dangerous to be in America as it was to be overseas. So that the false distinction that's… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I enter into nature's game, and affect to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Marx's own illusion was to think that the working class movement, which he devoted his life to creating and strengthening, would both… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being,… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
We are 'writers,' we are not supposed to be interested in filthy lucre, we are supposed to be starry eyed artistes. ...… — Max D. Adams Copy Share Image
“We leave situations that are constantly painful or we seriously change them. However, the Greyness is more deceptive than that. It prolongs… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
“You've done her a service to teach her that romantic love is largely made of illusion." [said Mina.] "Is it?" Alessandra asked,… — Barbara Quick Copy Share Image
If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be almost… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Now comes the threat of climate crisis - a threat that is real, rising, imminent, and universal. Once again, it is the… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Our self illusion is so interwoven with personal memories that when we recall an event, we believe we are retrieving a reliable… — Bruce Hood Copy Share Image
The dancer, or dancers, must transform the stage for the audience as well as for themselves into an autonomous, complete, virtual realm,… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
I also realized that the philosophers, far from ridding me of my vain doubts, only multiplied the doubts that tormented me and… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
You have seen that the universe is at root a magical illusion and a fabulous game, and that there is no separate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The common meaning of gratitude is to be thankful for benefits received. While this is important, I feel that the energy of… — John Randolph Price 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
“Because we feel ourselves to be separate from the world in which we live, we have also grown to feel quite alone… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any danger of me playing Indian music. However, I did a song of George Harrison's 'Beware of Darkness'… — Leon Russell Copy Share Image
I've always found that when you're trying to create illusions with sound, especially in a science fiction or fantasy movie, that pulling… — Ben Burtt Copy Share Image
Your soul has a special mission. Your soul is supremely conscious of it. Maya, illusion or forgetfulness, makes you feel that you… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Three characteristics a work of fiction must possess in order to be successful: 1. It must have a precise and suspenseful plot.… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary limitations, seeking the maximum. In the first case one cheats… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“No one does any deed independently; one has to do it due to dependency. One is guilty only when he does something… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
We are talking about an awesome power. It is the power to weave illusions that appear real as long as they last.… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“That's when I saw you, really saw you for the first time. I didn't intend to look at you, it just happened.… — Kimberly Sabatini Copy Share Image
After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us toward is not the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A book no more contains reality than a clock contains time. A book may measure so-called reality as a clock measures so-called… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
It is my experience that marriage does not make one happier. It destroys the illusion that has been the essence of one's… — Paula Modersohn-Becker Copy Share Image
It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
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