“What we usually think of as the self is very temporal and an illusion.” — Gyomay M. Kubose Copy Share Image
Imaginations and illusions are always so much more powerful and bigger than this mediocre and boring thing called reality. — Gottfried Helnwein Copy Share Image
We live our lives for our life's sake, rather than for illusions about rewards and satisfaction after we're dead. — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
Without art we live under the illusion that there is only time, and not eternity. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it. — Mordecai Wyatt Johnson Copy Share Image
Sometimes we have to be cat, sometimes rat, but eventually we evolve to become more intellectual. — Jatin Tanwer Copy Share Image
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
“If you are to suppose that natural reasons are the cause of everything, then it can only lead to the conclusion that… — Lewis N. Roe Copy Share Image
“In truth, it is the simplest act in the world. The trick works because you wish it to. You must remember the… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“Death is merely an illusion of the departed... Just because you cannot physically see the idea of God, doesn't mean that he… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
I mean, the thought of someone spending $20 to come and see me and saying 'Oh, I prefer the record and she's… — Adele Copy Share Image
Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
If people are fans of 'Mindfreak,' they are going to be so excited with 'Believe.' They are actually going to see those… — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
“Kuranes had not lingered, but had plodded on as though summoned toward some goal. He dared not disobey the summons for fear… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
I realized that if I was going to achieve anything in life I had to be aggressive. I had to get out… — Michael Jordan Copy Share Image
I'm so deeply interested in what it feels like to be other people that I get to operate under the illusion when… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
For most Northerners, Texas is the home of real men. The cowboys, the rednecks, the outspoken self-made right-wing millionaires strike us as… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
The being we call god is merely a pawn working for a powerful and rational force in some far-off galaxy. This force… — Nick Yee Copy Share Image
When the thunder rumbles, Now the age of gold is dead. When the dreams we've clung to Trying to stay young, Have… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
History, insofar as it accustoms human beings to comprehend the whole of the past and to hasten forward with its conclusions into… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
“The worst fear of the race yes, the world suddenly transformed into a senseless nightmare, horrible dissolution of things. Nothing compares, even… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
Giving importance to what we think because we thought it, taking our own selves not only (to quote the Greek philosopher) as… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Illusions connected with religion are generally most difficult to remove.” — John Meade Falkner Copy Share Image
Without being in constant exchange with the rest of the cosmos, you cannot exist. The idea of individuality is an illusion. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
The true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions we uncover the laws of truth — Jagadish Chandra Bose Copy Share Image
“The stage is not the place to remind the audience that one is human. Illusion is what they are paying for.” — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does. — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
“There is no limit to the amount of intelligence invested in ignorance when the need for illusion runs deep.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Veryday people look at me and they see someone strong, but say his name to me and then youll find out that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Flashes of awareness that we live an illusion – that, and no more, is what distinguishes the greatest of men.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Suffering dispels the illusion that we have the strength and competence to rule our own lives and save ourselves. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Such dreams provide this temporary illusion of a life that has meaning.” — Anna Jae Copy Share Image
I am against limitations like perspective. Perspective is illusion, it's the opposite of presence, and art is presence. — Pierre Soulages Copy Share Image
Music is a big factor in helping the illusion of the film come to life. The same way music brings back different… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
All goals apart from the means are illusions; becoming is a denial of being. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
“I very much like this one :" For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything..For us who do it is… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
Manstein is a man of illusions. ... He believes Hitler will listen to facts. — Erwin Rommel Copy Share Image
“How many minutes will still die in the swamp of your illusion of being human?” — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image