“That was why, later on, he began to lose interest in photography: first when colour took over, then when it became plain… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Soul mates' are fiction and an illusion; and while every young man and young woman will seek with all diligence and prayerfulness… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
When I speak of the aspiration towards the beautiful, of the ideal as the ultimate aim of art, which grows from a… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by illusion, a point of pure truth, a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
All writers know that on some golden mornings they are touched by the wand; they are on intimate terms with poetry and… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The self divided is precisely where the self is authentically located. . . We all have identity crises because a single identity… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Too late for changes, too late perhaps for explanations and ideological webs, but the love goes on, the love goes on, blind… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
In editing, you really face what the movie is. When you shoot it, you have this illusion that you're making the masterpieces… — Daniel Espinosa Copy Share Image
The langour of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! The zest, the generous affections, the… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Playing with various approaches may be due to resistance to going within, to the fear of having to abandon the illusion of… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will," she says. The sky is like a monochromatic contemporary painting, drawing me in with… — John Green Copy Share Image
Our answer is the world's hope; it is to rely on youth. The cruelties and the obstacles of this swiftly changing planet… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
We're left with so little to go on. Only the present is full enough to seem complete, and even that is an… — Ivan Vladislavic Copy Share Image
The misconception that there is serious disagreement among scientists about global warming is actually an illusion that has been deliberately fostered by… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Truth is not something you can appropriate easily and quickly. You certainly cannot sleep or dream yourself to the truth. No, you… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“It all seems ‘real,’ but as it is constantly changing, it is not Real. Due to this maya mentality (the illusion that… — The Bhagavad Gita Copy Share Image
I'm so deeply interested in what it feels like to be other people that I get to operate under the illusion when… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
When a country is in harmony with the Tao, the factories make trucks and tractors. When a country goes counter to the… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“We only suffer when we falsely identify with the objects that arise in our awareness, rather than with the awareness itself—when we… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
The willingness to not bypass illusion is very important. We come to nirvana by way of samsara. We come to see the… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Many Sages have said, "Your world is a dream. You're living in an illusion." They're referring to this world of the mind… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“Philip thought that in throwing over the desire for happiness he was casting aside the last of his illusions. His life had… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice. We’re each… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
The being we call god is merely a pawn working for a powerful and rational force in some far-off galaxy. This force… — Nick Yee Copy Share Image
For most Northerners, Texas is the home of real men. The cowboys, the rednecks, the outspoken self-made right-wing millionaires strike us as… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
History, insofar as it accustoms human beings to comprehend the whole of the past and to hasten forward with its conclusions into… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
“The worst fear of the race yes, the world suddenly transformed into a senseless nightmare, horrible dissolution of things. Nothing compares, even… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
Giving importance to what we think because we thought it, taking our own selves not only (to quote the Greek philosopher) as… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
When the thunder rumbles, Now the age of gold is dead. When the dreams we've clung to Trying to stay young, Have… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
The development of science has produced an industrial revolution which has brought different peoples in such close contact with one another through… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Synchronize watches at oh six hundred' says the infantry captain, and each of his huddled lieutenants finds respite from fear in the… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
This is where we are at right now, as a whole. No one is left out of the loop. We are experiencing… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
From the time I was five years old, theater was all I knew. I did community theater; I went to theater school.… — Beth Behrs Copy Share Image
As gay people, we always think outside of the box. The irreverent is always important to a drag queen and anyone else… — RuPaul Copy Share Image
Our moral reasoning is plagued by two illusions. The first illusion can be called the wag-the-dog illusion: We believe that our own… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Life is one, said the Buddha, and the Middle Way to the end of suffering in all its forms is that which… — Christmas Humphreys Copy Share Image
