“The present is the closest that you will ever get to the future.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education. — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
This craving for health, wealth, long life, and the like - the so - called good - is nothing but an illusion. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The illusion of purpose is to be avoided. The illuion of lack of purpose is to be avoided. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Anger is how we seek to create an illusion of control where we feel none.” — Nussbaum Copy Share Image
The world, life and human beings are only an illusion, a phantom, a dream image. — August Strindberg 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
“A great magician is as divine as God and his stage is as majestic as the paradise.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
I have no illusions. Of course, Russia is massively upgrading its military. We know that Russia is pursuing a policy of expansion.… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
“Histories, chronologies and almanacs offer us the illusion of progress, even though, over and over again, we are given proof that there… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Everyone you meet in your life - even total strangers - are already intimately connected to you. The idea that we are… — Steve Pavlina Copy Share Image
Human beings have illusions. The enlightened don't have illusions. They see things as they are, and in that seeing, they see ecstasy… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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
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 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
Imagine: You've spent all day traipsing around London, lost in a maze of chaos, trying to find a hidden illusion; you've been… — Kevin Brooks Copy Share Image
Imperialism creates the illusion of wealth as far as the masses are concerned. It usually serves to hide the fact that the… — Jack D. Forbes Copy Share Image
The illusion that consumption - and its correlative, income - is desirable probably stems from too great preoccupation with what Knight calls… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
I cannot agree with any astronomer who insists that all of these things are mirages, planets, clouds, or illusions. The majority of… — Morris K. Jessup Copy Share Image
I had a detailed plan for my life, but it turned out life had a completely different plan for me. And I… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Stardom is just an uneasy seat on top of a tricky toboggan. Being a star is merely perching at the head of… — Fredric March Copy Share Image
You want to favor systems that benefit from error, disorder, variability and things like that. You want to favor these systems and… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I started by saying that one of the most fateful errors of our age is the belief that the problem of production… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
“Power could be an illusion of perception. Even within yourself.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
