Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
It's still popular to ... insist that globalization is a rising tide that lifts all boats, but the hard reality is that… — John Michael Greer Copy Share Image
I had come to discover that "safe" was an illusion, a pretense that adults wrapped around their children- and sometimes themselves- to… — Holly Lisle Copy Share Image
Purity is an illusion. The idea of purity has been used as an excuse for calamities like honor killings, bride burnings, child… — Alice Glass Copy Share Image
I once heard a sober alcoholic say that drinking never made him happy, but it made him feel like he was going… — Heather King Copy Share Image
This is how to contemplate our conditioned existence in this fleeting world: Like a tiny drop of dew, or a bubble floating… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We need to come together sometimes and show our strength, so that the Donald Trump administration at its 100th day is under… — Donald Trump 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
“There is moksha (ultimate liberation) for the one who goes outside the moha (infatuation due to illusion). Moha is a vikalp (belief… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Everyone should know--there's no such thing as a decent human being. It's just an illusion. And when it's gone, it's really gone. — Courtney Summers Copy Share Image
As a journalist, I try to be as fact-based and objective as possible, though I'm also aware that objectivity is an illusion.… — Vanessa Grigoriadis Copy Share Image
I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury. — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Rulers who destroy men's freedom commonly begin by trying to retain its forms. ... They cherish the illusion that they can combine… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane,… — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
That's the illusion - the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out - and… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
I don't have the illusion that there's any position or role in the world with as much potential for bringing about change… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
They're very harsh people, the British: hard to impress, very tough on each other, but I rather like that. It's not that… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
“In the end, this volume should be read a s a collection of love stories, Above all, they are tales of love,… — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
If you alter or obscure the Biblical portrait of God in order to attract converts, you don't get converts to God, you… — John Piper Copy Share Image
He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
