Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
I've got my laptop, but it troubles me in many ways. I don't have Twitter or Facebook or anything like that. It… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we´re honest, that it will become a dark master of… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .The success of a work of art, to my mind, may… — Henry James Copy Share Image
I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
I hold the view that the alchemist’s hope of conjuring out of matter the philosophical gold, or the panacea, or the wonderful… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“Every being experiences themselves as the center of their experience. Consciousness is what lies at our very core, and connects us all… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is as tyrannical… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“We believe that it is possible for scientific work to gain some knowledge about the reality of the world, by means of… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Human life is fragile: we live in the space between one breath and the next. We often try to maintain an illusion… — Victoria Finlay Copy Share Image
Real peace comes only when you stop chasing it. When you relax your driving desire for comfort, real fulfillment arises. When you… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Most of the time, we see only what we want to see, or what others tell us to see, instead of really… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A mutually fulfilled sexual union between two people is the rarest sensation which life can provide. But it is not quite real.… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“…When the secret is discovered, when the Truth is seen, all the forces which feverishly produce the continuity of samsara in illusion… — Walpola Rahula Copy Share Image
“What is the truth?’ he asked. ‘We place faith in ourselves,’ replied Altaïr (...) ‘We see the world as it really is,… — Oliver Bowden Copy Share Image
One way of saying that is that there is an objective reality beyond our mind. A way to think of this in… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
“So it was a crossroads summer, when the universe seemed to stand perilously still like an egg wobbling on a precipice, a… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
There has never been a greater illusion than fear. Fear exists only whilst you believe in it - whilst you fear it.… — Geoff Thompson Copy Share Image
“Worldly efforts (laukik purusharth) are all an effect (prarabdha – effect of past life causes). To work in one’s profession is an… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“In that moment, he felt like the illusion that his family had become was held together only by the constellation of patterns… — Ari Berk Copy Share Image
“The machine seemed to understand time and space, but it didn’t, not as we do. We are analog, fluid, swimming in a… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
The phrase "It's absolutely the same with me, I..." seems to be an approving echo, a way of continuing the other's thought,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I wanted to say something different: the pictures are also a leave-taking, in several respects. Factually: these specific persons are dead; as… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Cops never took anything on faith, and disbelieved every story that was told them on principle until and unless they could confirm… — Dana Stabenow Copy Share Image
“If your consciousness is without form, without quality, and without characteristics of any kind, would that not imply that the consciousness in… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Rest forever, tired heart. The final illusion has perished. The one we believed eternal is gone. Just like that. Out the door… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
I'd like to drill in a little more detail into one aspect of cutting which is particularly close to me and that's… — Lee Unkrich Copy Share Image
I regard any behavior we indulge in as a game. The soul is beyond not only three-dimensional space but beyond the illusion… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
“What the Enlightenment rejected in the South Sea islands was what it perceived as a stupor, the docile submission to whatever bit… — Susan Neiman Copy Share Image
“How do you write a memory? For that matter, what is a memory? A remembrance, a dream of the past that floats… — Stephen Vaughn Copy Share Image
The technological age we're in now is the perfect forum for constant misdirection and constant distraction. I ultimately think it's a war… — Mark McGwire Copy Share Image
The Theatre of the Absurd ... can be seen as the reflection of what seems to be the attitude most genuinely representative… — Martin Esslin Copy Share Image
“We are so fascinated by the complexity and beauty of the various forms in nature, that we have been led away from… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Privative appropriation and domination are thus originally imposed and felt as a positive right, but in the form of a negative universality.… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
You know, when I was in love, I was always inventing things. A whole array of tricks, illusions and optical effects to… — Mathias Malzieu Copy Share Image
I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I see not… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
The absurd man will not commit suicide; he wants to live, without relinquishing any of his certainty, without a future, without hope,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
