Ugliness is an illusion, gentlemen. Like beauty. Like color. All depends on the light. The only reality is action. — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
In magic, it takes two or three years for me to create a 5-minute illusion for me to get it to the… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
You can’t stop a revolution from breathin’, so to beat ‘em they offer people the illusion of freedom. — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The worlds of Truth (love) and illusion (fear) are like parallel universes; with every thought we make a choice which one to… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“So how do we do this trip, knowing it’s all an illusion? How do we do that? We can’t do that. We… — Art Hochberg Copy Share Image
“An illusion threatens no one with harm. Neither can it be dispelled by armed force.” — Janny Wurts Copy Share Image
The more we retreat from the culture at large the more room we will have to carve out lives of meaning, the… — Chris Hedges 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
Unfortunately, for the vast majority of us, a vast majority of the time, we surrender our true autonomy to this illusion of… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing… — Socrates Copy Share Image
I'm gregarious with writers and never with manuscripts . . . I [like to] create the illusion of seamless perfection, so I… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
I find the older I get, the more I realize that time is really an illusion. Its like something we created, a… — Kim Wayans Copy Share Image
The media create this wonderful illusion-but the amount of airbrushing that goes into those beauty magazines-the hours of hair and makeup! It's… — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
“When we look at a tree, we do not see the tree for what it really is. We see how it appears… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
In matter-ism (materialism), there can be nothing wrong with the world since there is no right way for the world to be… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
Dying visions of angels and Christ and God and heaven are confined to credibly good men. Why do not bad men have… — Enoch Fitch Burr Copy Share Image
So much of what a pet is about for us is that it becomes a vessel for yearnings, dreams, illusions, hopes and… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
When white men first effect contact with some unspoilt race of savages, they offer them all kinds of benefits, from the light… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Every photographed object is merely the trace left behind by the disappearance of all the rest. It is an almost perfect crime,… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
It is the Land of Truth (enchanted name!), surrounded by a wide and stormy ocean, the true home of illusion, where many… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
From the little reading I had done I had observed that the men who were most in life, who were molding life,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
In the long run, it is far more dangerous to adhere to illusion than to face what the actual fact is. — David Bohm Copy Share Image
I think that the Oscar gives you some kind of guts or something, it gives you the illusion that you can do… — Benicio Del Toro Copy Share Image
I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and… — Paloma Faith 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
“If it looks real and feels real, do you think it matters if it's real?” — Daniel Nayeri Copy Share Image
We insist that society should conform to our own subjective illusion of reality. — Robert Anthony Copy Share Image
All that happens is the cause of all that happens. Causes are numberless; the idea of a sole cause is an illusion. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
My last kids were born when I was in my forties, so I still had little kids around me, which gave me… — Frank Langella Copy Share Image
“We can create the world where we are with the ones we want to love so easily.” — Taylor Nadeau Copy Share Image
“What we usually think of as the self is very temporal and an illusion.” — Gyomay M. Kubose Copy Share Image
Corporate principles and military principles are basically the same. Insulation. Illusion. Hype. Activity. — Tarun J. Tejpal Copy Share Image
“If myths, dreams and illusion are to be possible, the apparent and the real must remain ambiguous in the subject as in… — Maurice Merleau Ponty Copy Share Image
“Nothing blinks out, nothing ends. Everything exists, always exists. Life is but a dream, Shannon. Self is the only illusion.” — Tom Sweterlitsch Copy Share Image
Life is beautiful. Really, it is. Full of beauty and illusions. Life is great. Without it, you'd be dead. — Harmony Korine Copy Share Image
“I quickly learned that the illusion of appearance will always outweigh the truth of what’s really inside.” — Carian Cole Copy Share Image