159 quotes found
“Illusion is the greatest barrier of humanity..”
“Break an Illusion, and you open the eyes of the intelligent.”
“People loved to think they were getting a deal. Four times out of five they would look right past what they didnt want to see.”
“Perhaps the word perfect is just an illusion isn't it ?”
“Once you transcend the external differences, anything can be merged with anything.”
“Twitter gives people an illusionary sense of leadership.”
“No doubt we should be, on the whole, much worse off than we are without our astonishing gift for illusion.”
“Everything in the past is memory and everything in the future is imagination. Those're both illusions memories are unreliable and we just speculate about the future. The only thing that's complete...”
“A push-up bra is to a womans chest what 'breathing-in' is to a mans stomach.”
“Tomorrow is like 'there.' Once you get 'there,' it is called 'here.' So, technically, life is a set of Todays.”
“What's not there is.”
“...people live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true... that is how they define reality. But what does it mean to be correct or true? Merely vague concepts... their reality may ...”
“Ah, love. Thats what the world has lost. Theres no more love, only the illusion of it.”
“Was it just fear? the voices wonder. We were fearful in the best of times; how could we cope with the worst? So we found the tallest walls and poured ourselves behind them. We kept pouring until we...”
“Warped and bigoted with preconceived illusions of justice, freedom, and consistency, they cast off the old lore and the old way with the old beliefs; nor ever stopped to think that the lore and tho...”
“He then explained his new philosophy, which followed the devastating discovery that Love and Friendship were the veriest illusions. He explained that people married because their sexual appetite ha...”
“To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to t...”
“As often happens between people who have chosen different ways, each of them, while rationally justifying the other's activity, despised it in his heart. To each of them it seemed that the life he ...”
“It's hard for a masked man to hide behind a mask when he isn't wearing one.”
“- I see the real world, Nancy. But it doesn't seem real to me.- How does it seem?- It seems like an illusion that nobody notices.”
