Had the common man in (first century) Palestine thought about it at all, he would have considered the world flat, with land riding on and surrounded by water below and above. Keeping water up there was the “firmament” – a great, canopy-like dom...
And yet on that bench at Jacobacci, I was glad I had left everyone else behind. Although this was a town with a main street and a railway station, and people with dogs and electric lights it was near enough to the end of the earth to give me the impr...
Happiness, thou art naught but an illusion. Thy enchantments are cast upon my eyes, my mind, my spellbound heart. Dependent upon nothing but thy victim's perception of thee, souls soar at thy artful hand! I have fallen in love with thy illusions, Hap...
Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification, translation and decoration […]; truths are illusions of which we have forgotten ...
The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
Illusions of freedom will never satisfy me.
Separate yourself from the lies and illusions which are not you.
With Quinn, safety wasn’t even an illusion. It was an impossibility
Vision without an Action is Illusion. Action without a Vision is Confusion.
If you know something is an illusion, why pretend it is reality?
Emotion arise from Desire, hence an Illusion.
Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.
No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion.
Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.
I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.
