[O]ne of the greatest difficulties encountered in bringing about favorable change is this almost inescapable illusion that there is a perduring, unique,… — Harry Stack Sullivan Copy Share Image
War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized. — Marianne Moore 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
The life of West, Nietzsche said, is based on Christianity. The values of the West are based on Christianity. Some of these… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
I can take this real world and superimpose upon it the world of illusion (which isn't, really), in order to either fix… — Silver RavenWolf Copy Share Image
Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again,… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
The theatre should be treated with respect. The theatre is a wonderful place, a house of strange enchantment, a temple of illusion.… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged. What is meant by God-realization is to actually experience this important thing… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
Each of us believes himself to live directly within the world that surrounds him, to sense its objects and events precisely, and… — Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle Copy Share Image
“Hi Hazel Well here I am in the office and it’s dead quiet. What I’ll do is email pics of some of… — Elizabeth Tebby Germaine Copy Share Image
True love means you love the real person, not an ideal that you have in your head and superimpose over them. That's… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
You think of yourself as an "individual person", with a unique and separate mind. You think you are born and you think… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
Maintaining the illusion that I am in control is futile, lonely, and in the long run more always costly than the effort… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years. — Sheila Ballantyne Copy Share Image
Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion. God's love for you… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that - thoughts.” — Allan Lokos Copy Share Image
I'm so into the illusion I can hide where I can't even find myself. — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
When self-important people and powerful institutions are governed by illusion, history has a way of biting back. — William Greider Copy Share Image
And the whole schtick of the psychedelic experience, I think, is reclaim immediate experience, realize that you out vote all parliaments, police… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image