Illusory Quotes
107 quotes by 95 authors
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In a deep metaphysical sense, all that is conditioned is illusory. All phenomena are literally 'appearances,' the outer masks in which the One Reality shows…
— Annie Besant
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Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.
— Theodor Adorno
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To be choiceless is to be in meditation. To be choiceless is to enter the eternal. To be of choice is to enter the world:…
— Rajneesh
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The promotion of the culture of life should be the highest priority in our societies...If the right to life is not defended decisively as a…
— Pope John Paul II
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The inviolability of the person which is a reflection of the absolute inviolability of God, finds its primary and fundamental expression in the inviolability of…
— Pope John Paul II
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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
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But I've always felt a need to have a life which is completely separate - at least as far as possible - from the kind…
— Winona Ryder
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Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew -- not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. ... What is the worldly religion…
— Karl Marx
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There are sacred moments in life when we experience in rational and very direct ways that separation, the boundary between ourselves and other people and…
— Catherine Ponder
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First of all there will appear to you, swifter than lightning, the luminous splendor of the colorless light of Emptiness, and that will surround you…
— Gautama Buddha
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In our everyday garden grow the rosemary, juniper, ferns and plane trees, perfectly tangible and visible. For these plants that have an illusory relationship with…
— Leo Lionni
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The 'public' is a phantom, the phantom of an opinion supposed to exist in a vast number of persons who have no effective interrelation and…
— Karl Jaspers
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Library of the Works of Ludwig von Misesâ€. Here is an article he wrote in 1951, some two years after his magnum opus Human Action…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Love does not make you weak, because it is the source of all strength, but it makes you see the nothingness of the illusory strength…
— Leon Bloy
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Relativity propped it up, at least gave it the illusion of being there…the way all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity.…
— Joe Haldeman
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As you all become more intimate with Me, with opportunities to come closer to Me, all that is good and bad within you comes out…
— Meher Baba
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After all why should our goal be the reinstatement of an illusory 'exact' relationship between events and words? If you probe in the ashes you…
— M. John Harrison
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All knowledge that is not the real product of observation, or of consequences deduced from observation, is entirely groundless and illusory.
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory. Laws of physics determine the future.
— Brian Greene
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By creating so many illusory images of physical perfection, whether on store aisles or storefronts ads, magazine covers or TV show, we speak more to…
— Adora Svitak
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