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There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.
Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.
Illusions are important. What you foresee or what you remember can be as important as what really happens.
We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
I have no illusions of the future. Or maybe it's all illusion. I don't know. I've always been ready for it.
If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
Engaging each moment without reservation cuts through the illusion that things could be other than they are.
It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.
Being in the pulpit, was like being in the theatre; I was behind the scenes and knew how the illusion worked.
I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.
There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion - a false hope.
I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control.
The saddest illusion of the revolutionary is that revolution itself will transform the nature of human beings.
What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.
If you see the illusion you are enlightened, but if you think that you are enlightened you are in the illusion!
[Radical leftist] are never been a majority. We just fell for one of the greatest illusions in modern politics.
The only love from which a man never recuperates is the one he never had. The eternal and untarnished illusion.
If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.
Men have the illusion of having a duty to make the world spin properly, which is precisely what makes it wobble.
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Every once in a while, magicians strike gold. David Regal has created and produced the perfect close-up illusion.
It is no wonder if Art frequently prefers Illusion to Truth: for Illusion is her servant, but Truth her mistress.
Suffering dispels the illusion that we have the strength and competence to rule our own lives and save ourselves.
Everything that you are or conceive of yourself as being is just an idea. It's an illusion. It's a hallucination.
The rules of magic, my dear, are best not discusses. For once we understand the illusion, we no longer believe it.
the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion
We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.
Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.
The center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth.
When you genuinely lose your illusions, you begin to marvel at things, because you don't have the answers any more.
The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.
Everything is just electricity and magnetism; everything is only an illusion. The reality is in the spiritual plane.
I began to feel that if religion was either an illusion or a revelation, it was simpler to accept it as an illusion.
"Fun to drive" is a pleasant illusion in most places robustly inhabited where "safe to drive" makes much more sense.
All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.
Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.
I'd always wanted to do these types of things - pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it.
There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
When you empty yourself of the illusions of who and what you think you are, there is less to lose than you had feared.
Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.
More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.
We are all illusionists and that's why we are attracted to drag queens. This whole world is an illusion. It's not real.
In any city with lots of skyscrapers, lots of skyline, the moon seems bigger than it is. It's called the moon illusion.
The fear of death is the fear of the end of an illusion; so long as the illusion persists so long will the fear remain.
As long as we prioritize material truths over spiritual truths we will live in tyranny because we are living an illusion
Each individual has to burn out his own karma and escape from the chains of maya (illusion), reincarnation, and all that.
Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.
All these people that I used to know, they're an illusion to me now. Some are mathematicians, some are carpenters' wives.