Quotes of: Illusion Keyword

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.

The Future of an Illusion (The Standard Edition)

To successfully create illusion, the first thing you need is trust, but to perfect an illusion, the false reality most appear as authentic as the one it hides. Careful attention must be paid to every detail. The slightest of imperfections can, like a...

Emily Thorne

The world is cheapened when everyone sees it with a marketers eye.

OBD: Obsessive Branding Disorder: The Illusion of Business and the Business of Illusion

You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these kind of matches.

Rafael Nadal

Observe the difference between your attitude to illusions and mine. You have to defend the religious illusion with all your might. If it becomes discredited - and indeed the threat to it is great enough - then your world collapses. There is nothing l...

The Future of an Illusion (The Standard Edition)

our moral reasoning is plagued by two illusions. The first illusion can be called the wag-the-dog illusion: We believe that our own moral judgment (the dog) is driven by our own moral reasoning (the tail). The second illusion can be called the wag-th...

The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

I think there's a lot of anesthesia being - that's been pumped into American culture, the mass media television, various forms of entertainment, and the illusion of wealth that we now understand to be an illusion as well as the illusion that America ...

Parker Palmer

We believe that it is possible for scientific work to gain some knowledge about the reality of the world, by means of which we can increase out power and in accordance with which we can arrange our life. If this belief is an illusion, then we are in ...

The Future of an Illusion (The Standard Edition)

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.

The Future of an Illusion (The Standard Edition)

The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That's the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That's worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a wa...

Ang Lee

Colliding with the bright light Of my true self, My illusions scream loudly, Themselves illusions Created by other illusions, Finally knowing that Deep within me Beneath the shell Lies the sacred beauty Of my true self.

Songs of Enlightenment

I'm an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call 'the last illusion.' The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that th...

Brian Eno

You do not exist to serve the illusion. The illusion exists to serve you.

Lauren Zimmerman

Looking around there is nothing but illusion Everything is drowned in the oceans of illusion

Rixa White

When you are in love, reality becomes illusion and illusion become reality.

Debasish Mridha

Love is also a violence, and cannot be undone.

The Illusion of Separateness

Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

W. Somerset Maugham

Perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinction. Apart from the fact that no penalty is imposed for not sharing them, my illusions are not, like religious ones, incapable of correction.

The Future of an Illusion (The Standard Edition)

Of course, the original (anonymous) writer of (the Gospel of) John didn’t use quotes – as they didn’t exist in written Greek – but the translator/publisher of the modern Bible does. And that style strongly implies a validity that is pure illu...

The Illusion of "Truth": The Real Jesus Behind the Grand Myth

Because an illusion is an illusion. Reality always exists despite the facade.

Pivot Point