Illusion Quote by Tariq Ali Download Open image “We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane.” — Tariq Ali ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Illusion Profane Sacred Truth World
There's so many different types of illusions; our lives are an illusion in a sense. — Jihae Copy Share Image
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Life is never what we imagine it is. Great illusions are so powerful, when we want them to be true — Senoraroy 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
“If we choose to, we can live in a world of comforting illusions. We can allow ourselves to be deceived by false realities. Or… — Emily Thorne Copy Share Image
“We live in a world where illusion reigns and reality is frowned upon.” — Sanjo Jendayi Copy Share Image
American imperialism has always been the imperialism that has been frightened of speaking its name. Now it's beginning to do so. In a way,… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Scotland's political identity was destroyed, and a huge Scottish emigration to North America followed the brutal Highland clearances. These included every layer of Scottish… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
When a country is invaded and attacked and people resist it's important to speak up and to say they have the right to resist… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
I think another crisis, which is being predicted now and which will be worse than what we saw in 2008, could bring the European… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
The European Union is effectively a union dominated by the German political and economic elite. Its main function is to serve as a nucleus… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
I think democracy is on the decline in the West. Ruling parties are the same: neo-liberalism at home and wars abroad. — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
One cannot discuss Europe without understanding US imperial hegemony, both globally and certainly in Europe as it stands. — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
The Enlightenment attacked religion - Christianity, mainly - for two reasons: that it was a set of ideological delusions, and that it was a… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
I think the Americans fished out the same condom but found it had too many holes in it. — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
One could think of ways to defeat the censor. I could put up the answers on my Facebook page or website or Counterpunch. In… — Tariq Ali 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
