...in any society, Law is an illusory concept that works only when everyone voluntarily agrees to live by it. — Massad Ayoob Copy Share Image
Everything we see is an illusion. Even our perceptions of truth are illusory, illusory in the sense they're not complete. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Hasn't knowledge only crippled me from seeing truth? Is knowledge itself illusory? — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Certain knowledge of what to fight for, and what to fight against, gives meaning to life and provides its own version of… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
I urge people to be a scientist about what they want and ask themselves why they want it so badly. Perhaps they… — Agapi Stassinopoulos Copy Share Image
Library of the Works of Ludwig von Mises”. Here is an article he wrote in 1951, some two years after his magnum… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Feuerbach ... recognizes ... "even love, in itself the truest, most inward sentiment, becomes an obscure, illusory one through religiousness, since religious… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
The old world is dying, but a new world is being born. It generates inspiration from the chaos that beats upon us… — Carlos Bulosan Copy Share Image
When I was 17 until, I don't know, 20, I had this massive, baseless confidence. This very clear idea of myself and… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
Transcendence implies the surpassing of two things, and the consequent attainment of a third thing. But there are no 'things' in reality,… — Wei Wu Wei Copy Share Image
When you feel that you are a lonely, put-upon, isolated little stranger confronting all this, you are under the influence of an… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“He sank back into his black-and-white world, his immobile world of inanimate drawings that had been granted the secret of motion, his… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
It’s all about control. Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of… — Kobo Abe Copy Share Image
It is no wrong or injustice that one has many bags of the finest myrrh and garments embroidered with gold, while another… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
To transcend the identification with the body one has to realize the auspiciousness and divinity residing within each cell of the body.… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
When you awaken, you know that everything that occurs at the level of mind is illusory in nature and so you no… — Leonard Jacobson Copy Share Image
The minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The Petraeus-Crocker testimony is the kind of short-lived event on which the Administration has relied to shore up support for the war:… — George Packer Copy Share Image
The people who benefit from this state of affairs have been at pains to convince us that the agricultural practices and policies… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Rooting in work is crucial to any accomplishment. Rooting in mere enthusiasm will in the long run force illusory measures to keep… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
In the products of the culture industry human beings get into trouble only so that they can be rescued unharmed, usually by… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
False modesty is the masterpiece of vanity: showing the vain man in such an illusory light that he appears in the reputation… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Of all the vulgar arts of government, that of solving every difficulty that might arise by thrusting the hand into the public… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
