Illusions Quotes

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The first part of the spiritual journey should properly be called psychological rather than spiritual because it involves peeling away the myths and illusions that… — Sam Keen
Modern man's difficulties, dangerous beliefs and feelings of loneliness, spiritual emptiness,and personal weakness are caused by his illusions about, and separation from, the natural world. — Benjamin Hoff
Do you want a sign that you're asleep? Here it is: you're suffering. Suffering is a sign that you're out of touch with the truth.… — Anthony de Mello
Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions. — Henry R. Luce
The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to what extent their cultural development will succeed in mastering the… — Sigmund Freud
The mind has its illusions as the sense of sight; and in the same manner that the sense of feeling corrects the latter, reflection and… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
We live our lives for our life's sake, rather than for illusions about rewards and satisfaction after we're dead. — PZ Myers
Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false Self. We are not very good at recognizing illusions, least of all the… — Thomas Merton
Man did not address his inquiries to the earth on which he stood until a remarkably late stage in the development of his desire for… — Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald
When you have lived longer in this world and outlived the enthusiastic and pleasing illusions of youth, you will find your love and pity for… — Joseph Henry Shorthouse
... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills and diseases of… — Alfred Tarski
The trouble with illusions is that you aren't aware you have any until they are taken away from you. — Mary Doria Russell
The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action. — Oscar Wilde
Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
God's revelation... unmasks our illusions about ourselves. It exposes our pride, our individualism, our self-centeredness - in short, our sin. But worship also offers forgiveness,… — Marva Dawn
A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings. — Albert Einstein
The true wisdom of the philosopher ought to insist in enjoying everything. Yet we apply ourselves to dissecting and destroying everything that is good in… — Eugene Delacroix
It is the habit of the unthinking to turn to the illusions of economic magic. These unhappy times call for the building of plans that… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
We are talking about an awesome power. It is the power to weave illusions that appear real as long as they last. That is the… — Ron Paul
There are no steps to self-realization. There is nothing gradual about it. It happens suddenly and is irreversible. You rotate into a new dimension, seen… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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