If we venture beyond the pale of Scripture, we are...exposed to all the illusions of imagination and enthusiasm. — John Newton Copy Share Image
Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours. — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Seeing through illusion is true fortune As we banish the waves of distortion.” — Clarissa Simmens Copy Share Image
“With the illusion that we have dominion over the earth we conclude we have nothing to fear.” — Laurence Gonzales Copy Share Image
“Tomorrow is like 'there.' Once you get 'there,' it is called 'here.' So, technically, life is a set of Todays.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
... love was an illusion which civilization had produced to give a little order to the frequency of the sex act. — Christer Kihlman Copy Share Image
But when I faced you in my blank confusion, I realized you weren't wrong, it was a mere illusion. — Daft Punk Copy Share Image
We seem to prefer a comfortable lie to the uncomfortable truth. We punish those who point out reality, and reward those who… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
“Amidst this paradoxical existence emerges a dichotomy – a world dying outside, while we, ensnared in our paradisiacal illusion, merely survive without… — Ryan Gelpke Copy Share Image
Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm really trying hard not to do anything that has been done before. So knowing everything I can about the legacy of… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
Spirituality is not primarily about values and ethics, not about exhortations to do right or live well. The spiritual traditions are primarily… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
The sprinkling of people of color through elite institutions in the United States, due to affirmative action policies and the limited progress… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
We need a romantic illusion to embark on relationships in the first place. After that, they survive or fail for other, more… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“When we are healthy, wealthy and powerful, we forget about our mortality. It’s only when irreparable cracks set in that we come… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
There are certain mystical belief systems that believe that taking pictures takes an aspect of the soul, but beyond that it's just… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
At last Niko dropped his hands, and opened his eyes. His perfect tree illusion solidified and settled. "Very nice," said Briar with… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
In this world, perfection is an illusion. Reagrdless of all those who utter the contrary, this is the reality. Obviously mediocre fools… — Tite Kubo Copy Share Image
“This illusion is reality, and we shall acknowledge it as such. The interdependence of secondary and primary qualities, the dependence of our… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Whether they really believe in their brave new world, however, is ultimately beside the point. They're building it. And in the friction-free… — Mark Slouka Copy Share Image
“Like the body craves oxygen, the mind is desperate for certainty. It believes that without a safe foothold on reality, it will… — Jacob Nordby Copy Share Image
As a child, I remember asking my parents when I was five years old, "How come if you are not Zionists, you… — Amira Hass Copy Share Image
Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion. — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
A fierce brief fusion which dreamers call real, and realists, an illusion; an insight like the flight of birds. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“A magician with decreasing practice sessions will give defective performances.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The only thing that endures is character. Fame and wealth-all that is illusion. All that endures is character. — O. J. Simpson Copy Share Image
“...knowing what o'clock it is gives ye the illusion that ye have some control over your circumstances.” — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Everything we perceive to be solid and static is made up of almost entirely empty space.” — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
They filled us full of false illusions and promiscuity, and they led us down that class-less road of mediocrity. — Ray Davies Copy Share Image
Some problems are obstacle illusions. They're not really as big as they seem. — Itsme867 Copy Share Image
I'm not under too much of an illusion of how smart or un-smart I am because filmmaking ultimately is about teamwork. — Guy Ritchie Copy Share Image
“Believing in what you don't know is as true as believing in what you know as long as your life is just… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
“Once you awaken, you will have no interest in judging those who sleep.” — James Blanchard Cisneros Copy Share Image
“Does anybody know which are the thoughts of God, even if they are plants, mountains, sky, stars or whatever else?” — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
If I had only one film in the world to save, it would be 'Grand Illusion.' — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
