“It's easier to believe the most outlandish lie that confirms what you suspect than the most obvious truth that denies it.” — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
Happiness is just an illusion of when things are getting a little less fucked up. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Because there is a word for perfection, people will always imagine that they know it.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Success - To rise from the illusion of pursuit to the disillusion of possession. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Everything is just electricity and magnetism; everything is only an illusion. The reality is in the spiritual plane. — Lobsang Rampa Copy Share Image
What can we say to people who think that dreams are the real world and this one is an illusion. Perhaps they're… — Lothaire Bluteau Copy Share Image
That time is important. It gives a comforting illusion of permanence not found in running by the mile. — Joe Henderson Copy Share Image
What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what… — Edith Head Copy Share Image
Tutelage is a comfortable relationship for the senior partner, but it is demoralizing in the long run. It breeds illusions of omniscience… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The democratic concept of man is false, because it is Christian. The democratic concept holds that . . . each man is… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Do not feel that you are destined to enlightenment in this life. You have no idea. This is an illusion of selfhood.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People who cling to their illusions find it difficult, if not impossible, to learn anything worth learning: a people under the necessity… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To believe the non-Self’s intent as the Self’s intent is indeed an illusion. To believe that ‘I am the doer’; where the… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“We conditioned souls have taken shelter of the material body, which is full of troubles and miseries. Foolish people cannot understand the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The stranded, walking a fine line between reality and illusion, constantly weaving through disappointment and hope, despite all, never stop dreaming of… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
I have never had illusions about the value of my individual contribution! I realized early that what a man or a woman… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
Humans withdraw to their homes, and surrender the night to the creatures that own it: the crickets, the owls, the snakes. A… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Success on a cosmic level completely eludes me. I'm deeply suspicious of things being too good. It's part of my superstition, I… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
“...then he comes to the brink of a precipitous fall; that is, he comes to the point where he himself will have… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
It is one of the most fatal illusions that, by substituting negotiations between states or organized groups for competition for markets or… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
At the end of the 1960s, I was part of the downtown theatrical movement in New York that was making work in… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
“The world is not something to be understood. It is vanity, illusion to even try.” — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions. — Carlos Santana Copy Share Image
One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Mind is the illusion that which is not but appears, and appears so much that you think that you are the mind. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“That which is actually there cannot be seen and that which is not there is seen, that is called Moha (illusory attachment)!” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Comedy, when it works, is light on its feet and has the illusion of complete spontaneity: as if there is no film,… — David Dobkin Copy Share Image
“No matter how many times audience has already applauded, the sound of their applause will get louder with the better quality of… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Through being "right", you feel superior and through feeling superior you strengthen your sense of self. In reality, of course, you are… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I have no illusions about my position in this world as an actor or anything like that. I'm very realistic. Reality is… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
This is a prayer, inchoate and unfinished, for you, my love, my loss, my lesion, a rosary of words to count out… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion… — George Washington Copy Share Image
What is society but an individual? [] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
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