Globalization is a reality. And this makes most leaders today realize that populist illusions can't be sustained before they collapse into stagnation… — Fernando Henrique Cardoso Copy Share Image
Many other means there be, that promise the foreknowledge of things to come: besides the raising up and conjuring of ghosts departed,… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
He was a physicist, more precisely an astrophysicist, diligent and eager but without illusions: the Truth lay beyond, inaccessible to our telescopes,… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Comedy is deemed inferior to tragedy primarily because of the social prevalence of narcissistic pathology. In other words people who are too… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
What if there were no grownups? Suppose the whole idea of grownups was an illusion? What if their money was really just… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
What, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call thought, that we must thus make it the model… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“But only in order to know if you, as you really are now, see yourself as you once were with all the… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
When I reflect upon what I have seen, what I have heard, what I have done, I can hardly persuade myself that… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
The work of adult life is not easy. As in childhood, each step presents not only new tasks of development but requires… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
“Have you ever had a dream that you were certain was real, only to wake up and realize that everyone and everything… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
One can't write a weird story of real power without perfect psychological detachment from the human scene, and a magic prism of… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Drizzt Do'Urden had followed a line of precepts based upon discipline and ultimate optimism. He fought for a better world because he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People create the illusion of acting natural, which is what I think most documentarians do in part because of the direct cinema… — Joshua Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
The peculiarity of sculpture is that it creates a three-dimensional object in space. Painting may strive to give on a two-dimensional plane,… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
If you are not a skater, you probably can't imagine what I mean. I could try to tell you by saying it's… — Sonja Henie Copy Share Image
“Trust is such a devious term. When you trust someone, are you not merely assuming that they are what they say that… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
“We are like waves in the ocean, each with a unique character and quality on the surface, but deep down we are… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“To successfully create illusion, the first thing you need is trust, but to perfect an illusion, the false reality most appear as… — Emily Thorne Copy Share Image
The problem is one of opposition between subjective and objective points of view. There is a tendency to seek an objective account… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
“But when fundamentals are doubted, as at present, we must try to recover the candour and wonder of the child; the unspoilt… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Let’s get one thing straight: Mexican food takes a certain amount of time to cook. If you don’t have the time, don’t… — Denise Chavez Copy Share Image
“Let the things be illusions or not, after all I would then also be an illusion, and thus they are always like… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
There are lots of signs that average Israelis want peace. But after such a long war - this conflict has been going… — Uri Avnery Copy Share Image
According to the Buddha, the failure to recognize the illusion of the self is the source of all ignorance and unhappiness. It… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
“On the back part of the step, toward the right, I saw a small iridescent sphere of almost unbearable brilliance. At first… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
And as much as I’d like to believe there’s a truth beyond illusion, I’ve come to believe that there’s no truth beyond… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Ultimately, of course, you must decide for yourself whether the subjective psychological effects created by your evolved cognitive biases reflect an objective… — Jesse Bering Copy Share Image
Science and technology were often used by [the magician of old], even before they came into the marketplace on a mass basis.… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
I would warn against too much of a radical devotion to rationality. Rationality is an illusion, an invented concept, a construct from… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
The theatre should be treated with respect. The theatre is a wonderful place, a house of strange enchantment, a temple of illusion.… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
Let's make a deal with the Serbs. Neither history nor emotion in the Balkans will permit multinationalism. We have to give up… — Franjo Tudjman Copy Share Image
One of the truths about the world is that there are two superpowers, one a huge power which happens to have its… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
For ever and ever, we say when we are young, or in our prayers. Twice, we say it. Old One, do we… — Susan Cooper Copy Share Image
Being tired of all illusions and of everything about illusions – the loss of illusions, the uselessness of having them, the prefatigue… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Now you see. We are all fugitives. We have always been fugitives from the void. Whatever comfort, whatever power we gain from… — A.A. Attanasio Copy Share Image
Guilt? It's this mechanism we use to control people. It's an illusion. It's a kind of social control mechanism -- and it's… — Ted Bundy Copy Share Image
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