Illusions Quotes

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Spirituality is not primarily about values and ethics, not about exhortations to do right or live well. The spiritual traditions are primarily about reality...an effort… — Parker J. Palmer
Let's call this then, only half facetiously, a new patristic, in which the intellectual is charged with the task not only to denounce error and… — Michael Hardt
Today, when death and old age are increasingly concealed behind euphemisms and comforting baby talk, and life is threatened with being smothered in the mass… — Martin Esslin
In short, no association or alliance can be happy or stable without me. People can't long tolerate a ruler, nor can a master his servant,… — Desiderius Erasmus
Now you see. We are all fugitives. We have always been fugitives from the void. Whatever comfort, whatever power we gain from outside of ourselves… — A.A. Attanasio
The mind spends most of the time lost in fantasies and illusions, reliving pleasant or unpleasant experiences and anticipating the future with eagerness or fear.… — S. N. Goenka
Are you looking for something real in this world of illusions? Call me. Casual Flings need not apply. I am looking for Love. — Aprilynne Pike
Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours. — Mary Baker Eddy
Illusions are certainly expensive amusements; but the destruction of illusions is still more expensive, if looked upon as an amusement, as it undoubtedly is by… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Most people like to live in illusions. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to… — Conrad Veidt
You've got to drop something. You've got to drop illusions. You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop… — Anthony de Mello
The Master gives himself up to whatever the moment brings. He knows that he is going to die, and her has nothing left to hold… — Laozi
Everybody felt his superiority, but nobody felt oppressed by it. Though he had no illusions about people and human affairs, he was full of kindness… — Albert Einstein
The true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions we uncover the laws of truth — Unknown Author
Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually… — Martin Seligman
People do not marry people, not real ones anyway; they marry what they think the person is; they marry illusions and images. The exciting adventure… — Unknown Author
We have been ruled by men who live by illusions ... the illusion that there is some other way of creating wealth than hard work… — Margaret Thatcher
Take a good long look at human beings in their actual practices and motives; bring the utmost psychological and bio-economic factors to bear on making… — Kenny Smith
The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal growth in practical… — Ernest Hemingway

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