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It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature.

~ Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin Biology Evolution Harsh Illusion Natural Selection Science Struggle For Life

It is an illusion to worry about pride without having those things that may predispose someone to fall into the trap of pride...

~ Assegid Habtewold

Assegid Habtewold Humility Illusion Pride

One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion

~ Voltaire

Voltaire Illusion Optimism Status Quo

The problem isn't a shortage of opportunities, it's a lack of perspective.

~ Tim Fargo

Tim Fargo Focus Focusing Illusion Opportunities Opportunity Optimism Optimistic Perspective Perspectives Possibilities Possibility Potential Success Successful Vision Visionary

You can only carry the illusive personality in your mind until you realize the truth behind it, but the time you realize the truth, you just cannot hold the illusive self of yours, in the mind.

~ Roshan Sharma

Roshan Sharma Illusion Images Perception Perspective Realization Truth

Time is an excuse to delay.

~ Amitav Chowdhury

Amitav Chowdhury Busyness Conscious Awareness Delay Excuse Illusion Life Philosophy Of Life Time

One works hard to prop up an illusion that sucks the life out of them, and the other works hard to make their home a place that restores them, nurtures them, and gives life to others.

~ Craig Groeschel

Craig Groeschel Give Hard Home Illusion Life Nurtures One Other Others Out Restore Them Works

For spiritual vision of our soul, we need to balance between quantitative illusions & qualitative reality of our life.

~ Aditya Ajmera

Aditya Ajmera Awareness Illusion Reality Of Life Soul Spirituality

Once you are able to move beyond the concept of time, so too will you move beyond having any judging or condemning thoughts or feelings about any being, situation or event. When you have nothing to measure the successes and failures of you or anyone else against, then the perfection of each moment will be revealed to you consistently and with unwavering beauty.

~ Timothy Moran

Timothy Moran Awareness Beauty Illusion Time

Once you awaken, you will have no interest in judging those who sleep.

~ James Blanchard Cisneros

James Blanchard Cisneros Acceptance Awakening Awareness Buddhism Enlightenment Illusion Inspirational Judgment Peace Spiritual Wisdom

All stories are born out of illusion, but that doesn't mean they're not worth telling.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Eric Micha'el Leventhal Awareness Illusion Reality Story Truth

I say “illusion” of choice because, in many cases, the nature of their choices hardly reaches the level of will, but of merely perfunctory activity. For the most part, their desires are not too strong, they are too weak, apathetic and easily placated. They often can be tempted into doing Nothing.

~ Geoffrey Wood

Geoffrey Wood Choice Christian Fiction Christianity Grimrack Illusion Nothing Religion Strong Tempted Weak Will

The illusion of choice is the greatest magic trick ever performed.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

Ziad K. Abdelnour Choice Illusion Trick

What to wear: An employee chooses. How to dress: His employer chose.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mokokoma Mokhonoana Attire Choice Clothing Dress Code Employee Employer Freedom Illusion Relativity Uniform

Nobody likes the phenomenon of death, and death hates the phenomenon of life

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Michael Bassey Johnson Choice Death Fear Illusion

You lost your ability to choose the moment you started to use your eyes to see, and your heart to feel. Choice has become nothing but an illusion for you.

~ Lionel Suggs

Lionel Suggs Choice Illusion

...it is not for the illusion of a moment to govern the choice of a lifetime.

~ Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos Choice Illusion Life

There are two conversations going on at the same time: the story and a conversation about how the story is being told.

~ David Byrne

David Byrne Conversation Illusion Performance Story Storytelling

Some people brag about standing for something so hard and so much, that they do not realize that they are actually sitting.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau Arrogance Braggart Foolhardy Hallucination Holier Than Thou Illusion Misplaced Pride Paradoxical Judgement Pride

The woman you thought you talked to was like one out of my novels, nothing more than a dream, and illusion I conjured to feel better. That’s all I ever will be, unable to be that woman in real life.

~ Nicole Kiefer

Nicole Kiefer Attraction Fear Illusion Love Mirrage Need Novel Want

The only thing that keeps us from a place of joy is an illusion, the illusion of fear.

~ Molly Friedenfeld

Molly Friedenfeld Fear Happiness Illusion Inspiration Inspirational Quotes Joy Life Purpose Making A Difference Truth Unconditional Love

Lucien?”“Yes, Alice?”Her heart was pounding, but she willed herself to muster the courage to reach out to him— unpredictable, dangerous as he was. “I think it’s real.

~ Gaelen Foley

Gaelen Foley Confession Heart Illusion Love Romantic

Tomorrow is an illusion suggesting that another chance always exists.  It is a dangerously false illusion.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Richelle E. Goodrich Chance False Falsehood Illusion Opportunity Richelle Richelle Goodrich Tomorrow

Life isn't all perpetual bliss, nor is it one woeful weeping session. But you can concentrate so hard on noticing moments of one or the other that either a bright outlook or dim expectations becomes your regular illusion.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Richelle E. Goodrich Bright Dim Expectations Illusion Life Noticing Outlook Outlook In Life Richelle Richelle Goodrich

Beauty that pleases the eye is a frail, fleeting illusion. But that beauty capable of pleasing the heart can endure endlessly.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Richelle E. Goodrich Allure Attractiveness Beauty Enduring Illusion Richelle Richelle Goodrich

Kiss a frog with your eyes wide open. If he turns into a prince you won't miss the transformation, but if he doesn't, you won't be fooled by some wishful illusion in your head.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Richelle E. Goodrich Deceived Frog Illusion Kiss Prince Prince Charming Richelle Richelle Goodrich Wish

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, Happiness. Thou hast made me a part of them, and I am left delirious.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Richelle E. Goodrich Happiness Illusion Outlook Perception Richelle Richelle Goodrich

All order, I've come to understand, is theoretical, unreal — a harmless, sensible, smiling mask men slide between the two great, dark realities, the self and the world — two snake pits.

~ John Gardner

John Gardner Illusion Order Reason

Cognitive science has something of enormous importance to contribute to human freedom: the ability to learn what our unconscious conceptual systems are like and how our cognitive unconscious functions. If we do not realize that most of our thought is unconscious and that we think metaphorically, we will indeed be slaves to the cognitive unconscious. Paradoxically, the assumption that we have a radically autonomous rationality as traditionally conceived actually limits our rational autonomy. It condemns us to cognitive slavery - to an unaware and uncritical dependence on our unconscious metaphors. To maximize what conceptual freedom we can have, we must be able to see through and move beyond philosophies that deny the existence of an embodied cognitive unconscious that governs most of our mental lives.

~ George Lakoff

George Lakoff Autonomy Cognitive Science Embodied Mind Freedom Illusion Limitation Metaphor Reason Self Knowledge Thought

...Reason should take on anew the most difficult of all its tasks, namely, that of self-knowledge, and to institute a court of justice, by which reason may secure its rightful claims while dismissing all its groundless pretensions, and this not by mere decrees but according to its own eternal and unchangeable laws; and this court is none other than the critique of pure reason itself.

~ Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant Critique Illusion Knowledge Limits Reason Self Knowledge

Sounds of Time rattles the silence of Reality. An illusion pierces through similar existence and creates a conflict zone.

~ Amitav Chowdhury

Amitav Chowdhury Clarity Eternity Existence Illusion Time

Few coffee shops have books, fewer have good books, and even less will have one book that can change your whole life. Now, the question is: How many people can find that book? And, among those who do, how many will read it? Because, you see, life always provides opportunities, but not many can see them, when they're just there, waiting to be found, when they come our way, even if in the most unexpected place in the world. One has to be very sharp to recognize a window of opportunity in a wall of illusions. And the ability to redirect attention, demands that one can be capable as well of knowing his own limitations in the vast sea of energy and vibrations. Now, I could be talking about a book, a group or a person, as the axiom remains true to itself.

~ Robin Sacredfire

Robin Sacredfire Buddhism Illusion Rosicrucianism Scientology

The fear of death is the fear of the end of an illusion, so long as the illusion persists so long will the fear remain.

~ Christmas Humphreys

Christmas Humphreys Buddhism Death Fear Illusion

What a nuisance is the friend who must have this and that, whose likes and hates are infinite, with bitter and loud voiced complaint about the whole of circumstance? How pleasant are the truly great who, wanting nothing, are content with anything. Accepting all things in a world of illusion as born of cause-effect they live in a mind above the opposites, and we call them great because they do so.

~ Christmas Humphreys

Christmas Humphreys Buddhism Cause Effect Illusion Opposites

Greater than all the joysOf heaven and earth,Greater still than dominionOver all the worlds,Is the joy of reaching the stream.

~ Gautama Buddha

Gautama Buddha Buddhism Illusion Maya Spirituality

Survival is an ancient dream Life is nothing but an everlasting illusionNothing is RealDon’t believe in illusion,Remember me,I am here …

~ Rixa White

Rixa White An Ancient Dream Believe In Illusion Emptiness Empty Everlasting Illusion Illusion Life Nothing Is Real Remember Me Survival

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson Illusion Perception

When your heart truly adores somebody, your mind perceives a halo on that man's head.

~ Toba Beta

Toba Beta Illusion Perception

The dial of the clock wears out unevenly; Most worn Is the area round eight. As it is stared at with abrasive glancesunfailingly twice a day, It is weathered away. On the other side The area at two Is only half as worn, For closed eyes at nightPass without stopping. If there is one who possesses a flat watch evenly worn, It is he who, failing at the start, is running one lap behind. Thus the world is always A lap fast--The world he thinks he sees Has not yet begun. Illusory time, When the hands stand vertically on the dial; Without the bell announcing the raising of the curtain, The play has come to an end.

~ Kōbō Abe

Kōbō Abe Clock Illusion Perception Vision

I have seen a face with a thousand countenances, and a face that was but a single countenance as if held in a mould. I have seen a face whose sheen I could look through to the ugliness beneath, and a face whose sheen I had to lift to see how beautiful it was. I have seen an old face much lined with nothing, and a smooth face in which all things were graven. I know faces, because I look through the fabric my own eye weaves, and behold the reality beneath.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Kahlil Gibran Faces Illusion Perception Perspectives Prejudice Reality
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