A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't try to be clever at all. The idea that I could see what no one else can is an illusion. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
If the Internet can be described as a giant human consciousness, then viral marketing is the illusion of free will. — George Pendle Copy Share Image
An illusion has been created that Gujarat is the top performing state in the country in all facets. But that is not… — J. Jayalalithaa Copy Share Image
The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. — John Berger Copy Share Image
A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart. — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it. — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“Being more self-aware means welcoming more light into a dull life. When we throw light upon our self-perceptions, we immediately realise that… — Raphael Zernoff Copy Share Image
The idea that time is an illusion is an old one, predating any Times Square ball drop or champagne celebrations. It reaches… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
I never felt big enough playing Thor. And then people talk about you like you're 9-foot tall and 800 pounds. I'm well… — Chris Hemsworth Copy Share Image
That's the trouble with cookbooks. Like sex education and nuclear physics, they are founded on an illusion. They bespeak order, but they… — Anthony Lane Copy Share Image
I believe that the fundamental alternative for man is the choice between "life" and "death"; between creativity and destructive violence; between reality… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination;… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
We must remember that we do not observe nature as it actually exists, but nature exposed to our methods of perception. The… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Men as yet need some help to their imagination. There remains still room for a little illusion. It is better for men,… — Mary Abigail Dodge Copy Share Image
Children’s literature must build a bridge between the colorful dream world full of fantasy and illusion, and a tougher real world full… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The grass is always greener. You think how wonderful it would be to be someone else, but I don't think I would… — Marti Webb Copy Share Image
“There is an illusion about America, a myth about America to which we are clinging which has nothing to do with the… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
And once again I believe that nothing that's important really becomes lost. We just delude ourselves, thinking that we own the things,… — Miguel Sousa Tavares Copy Share Image
The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes… — Frank Zappa 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
One of the things I always underscore when I teach criticism is that young critics, or would be critics, frequently have this… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
The hardest thing to remember is that what we each really want is the truth of our lives, good or bad. Not… — Kenny Loggins Copy Share Image
Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
