Illusion Quote by John Meade Falkner Download Open image ““Illusions connected with religion are generally most difficult to remove.”” — John Meade Falkner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Illusion Religion
“I had learned many times that the more you try to get people to deny their illusions, the stronger the illusions can become. But… — Phillip DePoy Copy Share Image
“Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, religion often works to shrink and tame the very wild and mysterious forces that first drew our wonder. In the process of making… — Stephen K. Hayes Copy Share Image
“Observe the difference between your attitude to illusions and mine. You have to defend the religious illusion with all your might. If it becomes… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs. — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
“The problem with religion is that it blends this truth so thoroughly with the venom of unreason.” — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor. Sigmund Freud, The Future of an… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“In their heart of hearts, religions deal with a Reality they recognize to be indefinable, incomprehensible, unspeakable.” — Paul F. Knitter Copy Share Image
“We live in a world where illusion reigns and reality is frowned upon.” — Sanjo Jendayi Copy Share Image
“We thought there was no more behind But such a day tomorrow as today And to be a boy eternal.” — John Meade Falkner Copy Share Image
“It is sad when man’s unhappiness veils from him the smiling face of nature. The promise of the early morning was maintained. The sky… — John Meade Falkner Copy Share Image
“She went back to the kitchen, for the kitchen of the Hand of God was so large that Miss Joliffe and Anastasia used part… — John Meade Falkner Copy Share Image
“For Nature, if she once endows man or woman with romance, gives them so rich a store of it as shall last them, life… — John Meade Falkner Copy Share Image
“Westray remembered the organist’s manner in the church, and began to suspect that his mind was turned. The other read his thoughts, and said… — John Meade Falkner Copy Share Image
“Poverty’s a chilly theme,” he said; “let’s take something to warm us before we go on with the variations.” — John Meade Falkner Copy Share Image
“Is there any depression so deep as this? is there any night so dark as this first eclipse of the soul, this first conscious… — John Meade Falkner Copy Share Image
“He was in that broken mood for which the Middle Ages offered the cloister as a remedy; he felt the urgent need of sacrifice… — John Meade Falkner Copy Share Image
“A little later Anastasia was sitting before her bedroom fire writing. It has a magic of its own—the bedroom fire. Not such a one… — John Meade Falkner Copy Share Image
“...Will you not join me in a cup of cocoa? The kettle boils.” Mr Sharnall’s face fell. “You ought to have been an old… — John Meade Falkner 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
