We all have our little illusions about our own mental abilities. — Cornelia Otis Skinner Copy Share Image
A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last. — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Anger is how we seek to create an illusion of control where we feel none.” — Nussbaum Copy Share Image
The world, life and human beings are only an illusion, a phantom, a dream image. — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion… — Ben Katchor Copy Share Image
“A great magician is as divine as God and his stage is as majestic as the paradise.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“It incinerates unceasingly, trying smiling in illusion of being alive; it keeps broiling continuously and restlessly sparkles around like a blaze of… — Suman Pokhrel 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
Now that you've reached everything, you must slay this illusion without slaying it - without becoming caught up in the illusion of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“When we crumble under the exorbitant weight of conspicuous commodities and the material pressure in a universe of illusion, life may become… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
When I think about popular culture, I can't help but think that we're living in the age of loneliness. There's this illusion… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
You know how in football, guys throw defenses, and the defense throws you a look, but the look is not really what… — Rick Ross Copy Share Image
After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact,… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The sex illusion is not a fixed quantity: not what mathematicians call a constant. It varies from zero in my wife's case… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your… — John Berger 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
Most of us fail to appreciate the extent to which our behavior is under situational control, because we prefer to believe that… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
The indispensability of reason does not imply that individual people are always rational or are unswayed by passion and illusion. It only… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If one chooses sides on emotion then the rebel is the guy to go with. He is fighting for everything men claim… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
A painting is an object which has an emphatic frontal surface. On such a surface, I paint a black band which does… — Jo Baer Copy Share Image
