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Tag Name "Illusion" (1305)

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The things that matter in this country have been reduced in choice, there are two political parties, there are a handful insurance companies, there are six or seven information centers.. but if you want a bagel there are 23 flavors. Because you have the illusion of choice!
George Carlin
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Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.
Sigmund Freud
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Fear is the illusion that I have some control over the bad things that might happen to me.
Michael Treanor
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Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are there cannot be one without the other yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel I remember wondering to be always together yet forever apart?
Nicholas Sparks
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Among the several cloudy appellatives which have been commonly employed as cloaks for misgovernment, there is none more conspicuous in this atmosphere of illusion than the word Order.
Jeremy Bentham
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The wind shifts like this: Like a human without illusions, Who still feels irrational things within her.
Wallace Stevens
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Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as well be systematic, it's so thoroughly incentivised by our culture.
Francis Spufford
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The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.
Frank Herbert
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I discovered the miracle that all things that sound are music, including the dishes and silverware in the dishwasher, as long as they fulfill the illusion of showing us where life is heading.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others
William Gibson
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Disabused of our illusions by much travel and travail, we awaken one day to find that the sacred center is here and now - in every moment of the journey, everywhere in the world around us, and deep within our own hearts.
Parker J. Palmer
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If you want to stay in a state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up.
Alan Watts
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When one sees that everything exists as an illusion, one can live in a higher sphere than ordinary man.
Gautama Buddha
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What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind of shell, non? It was what made me famous and got me women. But it wasn't real.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
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Everything appears to me to be authored, in some strange way. And I wonder if this is not the spreading assumption of the psychedelic illusion/delusion/revelation that life is in fact art.
Terence McKenna
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You know the illusion of the cheap money is over and now Britain has to go out there and graft and earn its way and create wealth and prosperity in a very competitive world.
George Osborne
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Insight enables you to know your own heart. Clarity enables you to accept without illusion.
Deepak Chopra
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...The unconscious has no time. There is no trouble about time in the unconscious. Part of our psyche is not in time and not in space. They are only an illusion, time and space, and so in a certain part of our psyche time does not exist at all.
Carl Jung
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I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.
Yann Martel
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I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
Paul Cezanne
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We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.
John Ortberg
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Whether it is a simulated experience or a dream, the information that exists is all real... and an illusion at the same time.
Masamune Shirow
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The idea that the world can unite without being regulated is clearly an illusion.
Guy Verhofstadt
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The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.
Oscar Wilde
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