Read day and night, devour books—these sleeping pills—not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world--the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law.… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Clothing creates the illusion that bodies fit an aesthetically pleasing norm. And that illusion depends on getting the fit right. Garments that… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
I am almost certain that space and time are illusions. These are primitive notions that will be replaced by something more sophisticated. — Nathan Seiberg Copy Share Image
You go on being reincarnated until you reach the actual Truth. Heaven and Hell are just a state of mind. We are… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
We favor the simple expression of the complex thought. We are for the large shape because it has the impact of the… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
I think it's an injustice that most consumers going to the supermarket have so few options for fruit and vegetables to feed… — Bryant Terry Copy Share Image
All order, I've come to understand, is theoretical, unreal, a harmless, sensible, smiling mask men slide between the two great, dark realities,… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
Stories hold power because they convey the illusion that life has purpose and direction. Where God is absent from the lives of… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Our illusions-the beliefs we hold on to-are the very doorways to our freedom. We simply have to enter through them without grasping… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Now to sum it up,' said Bernard. 'Now to explain to you the meaning of my life. Since we do not know… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The Lord himself called it kusang (company of bad people)! He did not do it out of abhorrence. Nor has he called… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to imagine that you can awaken in any kind of permanent way. There is only NOW and so… — Leonard Jacobson Copy Share Image
There's a lot of fear connected with the inner journey because it penetrates our illusions. Taking the inner journey will lead you… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
When a writer with a voice as good as Richard Christian Matheson's tells you something, you have no choice but to listen.… — Michael Marshall Smith Copy Share Image
Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“If I know this, I ought to be able to escape the stupider kinds of illusion. The absolute nature of things is… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
It's overwhelming. I feel as if I am living in an illusion a dream where all things are possible. Amazing things do… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
It seems to me, that the only Objects of the abstract Sciences or of Demonstration is Quantity and Number, and that all… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Humility does not live in the prison of illusion that says that this world is a dark and terrible place. Those perceptions… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The way you're singing in your sleep The way you look before you leap The strange illusions that you keep You don't… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame, abandoned by a fantasy. …People fancy they are enjoying… — Rumi Copy Share Image
In the Bhagavad-Gita, a dialogue ensues in the middle of a battlefield, symbolizing the battlefield of life which we are fighting through… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We actually allow ourselves to choose to have different experiences and to liberate ourselves to see past the illusion, past the fear… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I advance, the happy… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
It's very tough to transfer ballroom technique onto the ice, to give the illusion of the proper hip motion and position, with… — Tessa Virtue Copy Share Image
One of the best ways to realize that age is an illusion is to have your body get older and realize that… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
That's the illusion - the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out - and… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“After everything, you still want to believe that love prevails, that in the end there will be justice. That is an illusion,… — Jessica Fortunato Copy Share Image
But just make someone who has fallen in love listen to his stomach rumble, and the unity of body and soul, that… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Life attacks us like a blind beast. It swallows up time, the years of our life, it passes like a typhoon and… — Álvaro Mutis Copy Share Image
I am under no illusion that amending the Voting Rights Act in Congress will be easy, but with bipartisan calls for legislation… — Amy Klobuchar Copy Share Image
We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
It is necessary to expose the false propaganda of the imperialists and thoroughly dispel the illusion that the imperialists will give up… — Kim Il-sung Copy Share Image
It is an illusion to suppose that a Dictator makes himself; at most he seizes an opportunity made for him by passive,… — Susan Stebbing Copy Share Image
This election [2016] will determine whether America is a free nation or whether we have only the illusion of democracy, but are… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow. It is like lightning and thunder. They occur simultaneously,… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image