The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Continuously, we have to fight to defeat the primitive tendency towards the glorification of arms, the adulation of force, born of the… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
'By convention there is color, by convention sweetness, by convention bitterness, but in reality there are atoms and the void,' announced Democritus.… — Edward Robert Harrison Copy Share Image
Parenting is not logical. If it were, we would never have to read a book, never need a family therapist, and never… — Jeanne Elium Copy Share Image
“This witnessing consciousness, this formless dimension of yourself, is the awareness in which your experience happens, yet it remains untouched by this… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
The inward persuasion that we are free to do, or not to do a thing, is but a mere illusion. If we… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
She passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The War Party has two wings: the Democrats and the Republicans. All others are outsiders, whose ability to storm the gates is… — Justin Raimondo Copy Share Image
I think it just really excites me, the idea of delving so far into a character that people actually believe it's real,… — Chris Lilley Copy Share Image
“The consciousness inhabiting your body is exactly the same as the consciousness inhabiting my body. We are one. The delusion that we… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion. Many refuse to admit it:… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
“they say that everything in the world is an illusion, that it’s not real. but how’s it an illusion? who’d say those… — li hongzhi Copy Share Image
There is something within me that might be illusion as it is often case with young delighted people, but if I would… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
I don't do formal debates, because formal debates where you have two people up on a stage in equal status, and each… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and… — George Washington Copy Share Image
In our true blissful essence of mind is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever...listen to the silence inside… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Darkness my beloved home, I return! I return, not whole, but damaged. Fatigued by quixotic tendencies, The prodigal has come back famished.… — Zubair Ahsan Copy Share Image
Sweet pliability of man's spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions, which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments!… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“Although the Being (Universal Mind) is not material, it does not mean that we cannot, conditionally, call this Mind an immaterial “substance.”… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
To let go of the illusion that I'm in control is an important lesson, because I tend to be a person who… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
I think human consciousness, is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The "Mona Lisa" is an optical illusion created by Leonardo Da Vinci. The woman in the painting "The Mona Lisa" doesn't appear… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“Govinda said: "But what you call thing, is it something real, something intrinsic? Is it not only the illusion of Maya, only… — Herman Hesse Copy Share Image
The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
People like Jesus Christ, the Buddha, and other walking masters who have moved through the earth have demonstrated that understanding that they… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
I was stuck in the feeling that one did not--was not justified in being alive unless one was fulfilling other people's dreams,… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion… — Ben Katchor Copy Share Image
When I look over my past, I see that the stages in my life are like the phases of the moon. I've… — Amy Neftzger Copy Share Image
“Then, one sunny September morning, the illusion of a personal God that I tried so hard to believe in, exploded over the… — Nathan Phelps Copy Share Image
“The bilateral illusion of unilateral attention was almost infantilely gratifying from an emotional standpoint: you got to believe you were receiving somebody's… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Often, I feel like a cheap imitation aesthetically looks better to me than the real, out-of-reach thing. It's amazing that brands create… — Hunx Copy Share Image
I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. before that, it is something real. what caused the disillusionment? no one told me… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
Once we're able to see this world as an illusion and a phantasm, then we can see everything that happens to us… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
We have these earthly bodies. We don't know what they want. Half the time, we pretend they are under our mental thumb,… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
No, there is now no circumstance known in which it can be affirmed that microscopic beings came into the world without germs,… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
“It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are… — Christopher Nuttall Copy Share Image
“The artist’s artistic brush stroke of colour... Fractionally exists within the art canvas cover... Unaware of its existence in the art’s totality...… — Hugh Shergill Copy Share Image
