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Tag Name "Illusion" (1297)

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When self-important people and powerful institutions are governed by illusion, history has a way of biting back.
William Greider
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Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion.
Aleister Crowley
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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
Aldous Huxley
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
Aldous Huxley
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The drama of the sky dance is enacted nightly on hundreds of farms, the owners of which sigh for entertainment, but harbor the illusion that it is to be sought in theaters. They live on the land, but not by the land.
Aldo Leopold
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The more you fail, the more you succeed. It is only when everything is lost and - instead of giving up - you go on, that you experience the momentary prospect of some slight progress. Suddenly you have the feeling - be it an illusion or not - that something new has opened up.
Alberto Giacometti
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In the long run, it is far more dangerous to adhere to illusion than to face what the actual fact is.
David Bohm
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the most all-around, practical, long-wearing illusions are the ones that you weave yourself.
Peg Bracken
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The only cure for loss of illusions is fresh illusions, more illusions, and always illusions.
William John Locke
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Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions.
Albert Einstein
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In quitting this strange world he has once again preceded me by a little. That doesn't mean anything. For those of us who believe in physics, this separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however tenacious.
Albert Einstein
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The sky is like a monochromatic contemporay painting, drawing me in its illusion of depth, pulling me up.
John Green
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Time is an illusion.
Albert Einstein
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The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein
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People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein
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Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony of cells in action, and that it is the cells which achieve, through him, what he has the illusion of accomplishing himself.
Albert Claude
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It is not true that the heart wears out - but the body creates this illusion.
Albert Camus
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The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners.
Albert Camus
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All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world.
Albert Camus
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The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno .
Italo Svevo
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In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land.
Albert Camus
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In prison, illusions can offer comfort.
Nelson Mandela
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You are a worksmith and who cares for his brothers, whos not seduced by illusions or fair weather friends.
Alanis Morissette
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These precious illusions in my head did not let me down when I was defenseless, and parting with them is like parting with invisible best friends.
Alanis Morissette
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