“It was due to two illusions. Both illusions involve the human” — Peter Francis Dziuban Copy Share Image
The causes of illusions are not pretty to discover. They're either vicious or tragic. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached. ” — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions. — James Jones Copy Share Image
Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years. — Sheila Ballantyne Copy Share Image
If it weren't for our illusions we'd be free from deceptions, and life free from any interests. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you want to realize yourselves all your pet illusions must be unmasked. — Mina Loy Copy Share Image
Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
“In this life we want much, yet in reality, to be happy and fulfilled we need very little indeed! And to truly… — Sean Azimov Copy Share Image
“She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she kept all her illusions. She tried to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of… — Dan Flavin 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
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
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
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
Democracy, Republic: What do these words signify? What have they changed in the world? Have men become better, more loyal, kinder? Are… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
“We fall into the great continuing circle of dancers. Some leave the floor, tired but giddy; others have only just arrived. They… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“As the body rots, so does the cage that traps us in our wordly concerns. When my legs become too weak to… — Samantha Sotto Copy Share Image
It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
“That's when I saw you, really saw you for the first time. I didn't intend to look at you, it just happened.… — Kimberly Sabatini Copy Share Image
I've always found that when you're trying to create illusions with sound, especially in a science fiction or fantasy movie, that pulling… — Ben Burtt Copy Share Image
“Hearing may make shorter intuitive leaps than sight, but it too is subject to illusions. The most pleasant of these are 'mondegreens,'… — Michael Kaplan Copy Share Image
“For if it is rash to walk into a lion’s den unarmed, rash to navigate the Atlantic in a rowing boat, rash… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Each of us believes himself to live directly within the world that surrounds him, to sense its objects and events precisely, and… — Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle Copy Share Image
