The old freedom sufficiently survives in the mind of the wage earner to give him the illusion that, while accepting insurance and… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
As bank customers, we tend to believe that we can have both perfect security for our money, drawing on it whenever we… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another. This painting here. I bought it 10 years… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to defend Israel. What I'm telling my nation is that Israel is just like any other state, and I… — Mosab Hassan Yousef Copy Share Image
To deny that there was this dark side of life would be like pretending that the cold of winter was somehow only… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
He looked at a world of incredible loveliness. Old distaff Celt's blood in some back chamber of his brain moved him to… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
A mind now clouded by the illusions of the innate darkness of life is like a tarnished mirror, but when polished, it… — Nichiren Copy Share Image
“We are only able to disrespect, mistreat, and harm one another when we forget that the other person is us; when we… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“That's how I do this life sometimes by making the ordinary just like magic and just like a card trick and just… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
As for those who think the Arab world promises freedom, the briefest study of its routine traditional treatment of blacks (slavery) and… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I love nature dearly and all creatures that contribute to make it what it is. I see the beauty in all expressions… — Yossi Ghinsberg Copy Share Image
The worst was relizing that I’d lost him for nothing because he’d been rght about all of it-- vampires, my parents, everything.… — Claudia Gray Copy Share Image
In ordinary life, we are not aware of the unity of all things, but divide the world into separate objects and events.… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
“That illusion of a world so shaped that it echoes every groan, of human beings so tied together by common needs and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Illusion is an intellectual knowledge (buddhijanya). Intellectual knowledge is vikalpi (uncertain, with wrong belief of the self). Whereas, the Real Knowledge (Gnan)… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
We see only the script and not the paper on which the script is written. The paper is there, whether the script… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
“Our beliefs shape how we perceive reality to be, and the belief that shapes our current perception of reality was adopted by… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Obviously invidious and prejudicial stereotypes need to be deconstructed and overcome, but it's not that they can be destroyed. I think that… — W. J. T. Mitchell Copy Share Image
“As I went over to say good-by I saw that the expression of bewilderment had come back into Gatsby's face, as though… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“He then explained his new philosophy, which followed the devastating discovery that Love and Friendship were the veriest illusions. He explained that… — R.K. Narayan Copy Share Image
Knowledge can be heady stuff, but it easily leads to an excess of zeal! -- to illusions of grandeur and a desire… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
“It seems true that believers have little money in their pocket and that rich have little faith in God. God and money… — Awdhesh Singh Copy Share Image
Human life is thus only a perpetual illusion; men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Over the years, Americans in particular have been all too willing to squander their hard-earned independence and freedom for the illusion of… — Cody Lundin Copy Share Image
THE ULTIMATE METAPHYSICAL SECRET, if we dare state it so simply, is that there are no boundaries in the universe. Boundaries are… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Tears and fears and feeling proud To say I love you, right out loud Dreams and schemes and circus crowds I've looked… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it all lacks totality, completeness, unity. When the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
They were not friends. They didn't know each other. It struck Tom like a horrible truth, true for all time, true for… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
I love filmmaking when fate is a part of the process and you are dependent on the laws of physics and the… — Larry Fessenden Copy Share Image
There's eco-pragmatism, where you recognize, 'Yeah, we live on a planet that's permanently altered by humanity, and rather than seek to return… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
Let's call this then, only half facetiously, a new patristic, in which the intellectual is charged with the task not only to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My father's from Pakistan and he has been a secularist all his life. In the Pakistani context, there's no messing with religion.… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share Image
We lost not only through death, but also by leaving and being left, by changing and letting go and moving on. And… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
Everything is a meaningless struggle against nothing and when people say that the world has become a better place that is a… — Odd Nerdrum Copy Share Image
“An illusion has three stages. "First there is the setup, in which the nature of what might be attempted at is hinted… — Christopher Priest Copy Share Image
I know,” said Peter. “Perhaps better than anyone. But you can’t stay a child forever. To choose to speak into Echo’s Well… — James A. Owen Copy Share Image
Allah made the illusion look real and the real an illusion. He concealed the sea and made the foam visible, the wind… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Closure is an illusion, the winking of the eye of a storm. Nothing is completely resolved in life, nothing is perfect. The… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I'm in show business. I believe in illusion and delusions and in holding aloft the bubble of a dream of some sort… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
