Even in an intensely mediated world, in a world that offers at least the illusion of radical self-invention and radical freedom of… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Passionate attachment to another nation produces a variety of evils... the illusion of common interests where no real common interests exist; adopting… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The Door Without a Key is the Door of Dreams; it is the door by which the sensitive escape into insanity when… — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
Safety is an illusion, Costis. A Thief might fall at any time, and eventually the day must come when the god will… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
“...Reason should take on anew the most difficult of all its tasks, namely, that of self-knowledge, and to institute a court of… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I like graceful and elegant partnering that gives an illusion of ease instead of emphasizing difficulty. I don't want to make something… — Justin Peck Copy Share Image
The more people anticipate the elimination of suffering the less strength they have actually to oppose it. Whoever deals with his personal… — Dorothee Solle Copy Share Image
In endeavor itself there is a certain dynamic entertainment, affording an illusion of useful purpose. With achievement the illusion is dispelled. Man's… — Rafael Sabatini Copy Share Image
All pain in life comes from wishing things were different than they are. Conversely, peace and happiness must come from accepting life… — Kristine Carlson Copy Share Image
Think of your career as your ministry. Make your work an expression of love, in service to mankind. Within the worldly illusion,… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Take a good long look at human beings in their actual practices and motives; bring the utmost psychological and bio-economic factors to… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Dialogue must appear realistic without being so. Actual realism-the lifting, as it were, of passages from a stenographer's take-down of a 'real… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I seek not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you want to stay in for the long haul, and lead a life that is free from illusions either propagated by… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Symons remarked that the most common and unhelpful illusion plaguing those who came to see him was the idea that they ought… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
This is what you do now to give your day topography--scan the boxes, read the news, see the chain of your friends… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
So now I'm going back again I got to get her somehow All the people we used to know They're an illusion… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
The lack of insight to reality, life and history as well as into God's ways, or sunan in His creation, some people… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
That has been a very strong message, and I feel that is going to continue, but there is a shift coming and… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
By the time Guns n' Roses spent 28 months from 1991 to 1993 touring the 'Use Your Illusion' albums, the tour staff… — Duff McKagan Copy Share Image
Do you believe in the value of truth, my dear, or don’t you?” “Of course I believe in the truth,” said Rhoda,… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
The source of wisdom and power, of love and beauty, is within ourselves, but not within our egos. It is within our… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
I started by saying that one of the most fateful errors of our age is the belief that the problem of production… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
You want to favor systems that benefit from error, disorder, variability and things like that. You want to favor these systems and… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
All these years I had been sustained by an illusion-happiness through victory- and now that illusion was burned to ashes. I was… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
Stardom is just an uneasy seat on top of a tricky toboggan. Being a star is merely perching at the head of… — Fredric March Copy Share Image
I cannot agree with any astronomer who insists that all of these things are mirages, planets, clouds, or illusions. The majority of… — Morris K. Jessup Copy Share Image
I had a detailed plan for my life, but it turned out life had a completely different plan for me. And I… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The illusion that consumption - and its correlative, income - is desirable probably stems from too great preoccupation with what Knight calls… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Art was a last, desperate attempt for me to be able to exist in the world after trying very hard not to… — Kirsha Kaechele Copy Share Image
Imagine: You've spent all day traipsing around London, lost in a maze of chaos, trying to find a hidden illusion; you've been… — Kevin Brooks Copy Share Image
Imperialism creates the illusion of wealth as far as the masses are concerned. It usually serves to hide the fact that the… — Jack D. Forbes Copy Share Image
Of all the islands he'd visited, two stood out. The island of the past, he said, where the only time was past… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
Imagine: you've spent all day traipsing round London, lost in a maze of chaos, trying to find a hidden illusion; you've been… — Kevin Brooks Copy Share Image
The necessity for power is obvious, because life cannot be lived without order; but the allocation of power is arbitrary because all… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
When we are in the grasp of illusion - or, for that matter, whenever we have a new idea - instead of… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
“The desert and the ocean are realms of desolation on the surface. The desert is a place of bones, where the innards… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In course of time the slow advance of knowledge, which has dispelled so many cherished illusions, convinced at least the more thoughtful… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
“Optical Illusion" Time is a stage magician Pulling sleight-of-hand tricks To make you think things go. There Eclipsed by the quick scarf… — Carol Lynn Pearson Copy Share Image
