Illusion Quote by Jill Lepore Download Open image “In antihistory, time is an illusion.” — Jill Lepore ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Illusion Time
Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The idea that time is an illusion is an old one, predating any Times Square ball drop or champagne celebrations. It reaches back to… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as time. Only the the substanance and quality of existence and the position it lyes in. — Devynald Morrison Copy Share Image
Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Time is like a river flowing endlessly through the universe. And if you poled your flatboat in that river you might fight your way… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
For the historian everything begins and ends with time, a mathematical, godlike time, a notion easily mocked, time external to men, 'exogenous,' as economists… — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
“Time is a sphere made up of language, colours, smells, senses and sounds, a sphere in which you and the world coexist, an instrument… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
The great cosmic illusion is a hierophany.... One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes in its… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
“Perhaps I just feel safer with the history that’s been more or less agreed upon. Or perhaps it’s that same paradox again: the history… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Weirdly, there have been a lot of critics of conservatism, but very few critics of innovation. As a culture, we are deeply paranoid about… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
The very first television ad targeted to women was produced by the Eisenhower-Nixon campaign in 1956. It includes footage of a woman supervising her… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Republicans were more pro-choice than Democrats up until the late 1980s. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
It feels silly to watch endless hours of winter sports every four years, when we never watch them any other time, and we don't… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Historians once assumed that when childhood mortality was high, people must not have loved their children very much; it would have been too painful.… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
When carrying a concealed weapon for self-defense is understood NOT as a failure of civil society, to be mourned, but as an act of… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
'Doctor Who' is, unavoidably, a product of mid-twentieth-century debates about Britain's role in the world as its empire unravelled. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
“Still, it strikes me that, taken together, they do make an argument, and it is this: the rise of American democracy is bound up… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
One day, I was playing 'The Game of Life,' the board game, with a mess of kids, and I wasn't quite sure how, but… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing. — Esther Meynell Copy Share Image
Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The fog of illusion, the fog of confusion is hanging all over the world. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in our hands,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Without illusions. I love you because you are fallible and because your poor misguided testosterone-corrupted brain has you doing cartwheels trying not to be.… — Cindy Gerard Copy Share Image
Many of us rely on our own illusion of control. But when God makes it known to you that you're not the one steering… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
How could they say that they truly loved each other? They had simply grown up together, been children together, and the proximity of it,… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not… — Kim Chernin Copy Share Image
