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Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow. -- Rene Descartes
Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional. -- Terry Eagleton
There is something decidedly faux about the camaraderie of Facebook, something illusory about the connectedness of Twitter. -- Bill Keller
We misjudge risk if we feel we have some control over it, even if it's an illusory sense of control. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come. -- Theodor Adorno
My preference for clear structures is the result of my desire - perhaps illusory - to keep track of things and maintain my grip on the world. -- Andreas Gursky
Jimmy Meng sought to be a power broker in the halls of justice. But the influence he sought to peddle was corrupt, and his power was illusory. -- Loretta Lynch
But I've always felt a need to have a life which is completely separate - at least as far as possible - from the kind of illusory lifestyle that comes with being a celebrity. -- Winona Ryder
I have written a book called 'In the Wonderland of Numbers.' It's about a young girl, Neha, who is very poor in mathematics, but in a series of illusory experiences, she becomes a great mathematician. -- Shakuntala Devi
By creating so many illusory images of physical perfection, whether on store aisles or storefront ads, magazine covers or TV shows, we speak more to the profit margins of companies than the self-esteem of today's girls. -- Adora Svitak
Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth. -- Octavio Paz
Although the events we appear to perceive in dreams are illusory, our feelings in response to dream content are real. Indeed, most of the events we experience in dreams are real; when we experience feelings, say, anxiety or ecstasy, in dreams, we really do feel anxious or ecstatic at the time. -- Stephen LaBerge
In a deep metaphysical sense, all that is conditioned is illusory. All phenomena are literally 'appearances,' the outer masks in which the One Reality shows itself forth in our changing universe. The more 'material' and solid the appearance, the further is it from reality, and therefore the more illusory it is. -- Annie Besant
Existence is illusory and it is eternal. -- Albert Camus
It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness! -- Ram Dass
God alone is truth, everything else is transitory and illusory. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Hasn't knowledge only crippled me from seeing truth? Is knowledge itself illusory? -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world -- Ramana Maharshi
Love is reality, fear is an illusory concept created in your mind. -- Marcus Thomas
Perfectionism is a perpetual flight into an illusory future that cannot be attained. -- Gary Zukav
Reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted. -- Joe Haldeman
Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory. -- Annie Lennox
We ourselves are not an illusory part of Reality; rather are we Reality itself illusorily conceived. -- Wei Wu Wei
Pain, sorrow, ignorance are all illusory; they cannot live. Bliss, joy, knowledge are true; they cannot die. -- Sivananda
Life is so messy that the temptation to straighten it up is very strong. And the results always illusory. -- Anna Quindlen
...in any society, Law is an illusory concept that works only when everyone voluntarily agrees to live by it. -- Massad Ayoob
Religion is only the illusory sun which revolves round man as long as he does not revolve round himself. -- Karl Marx
Everything is illusory. You cannot label something and feel that that is the beginning, middle, and end of it. -- Annie Lennox
It is not that things are delusory but their separateness in the fabric of the Whole that is illusory... -- Frederick Franck
As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed...magnifice nt. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory. -- Neil Armstrong
The Divine realm extends to the earthly; but the later, illusory in nature, does not contain the essence of Reality. -- Mahavatar Babaji
Everything we see is an illusion. Even our perceptions of truth are illusory, illusory in the sense they're not complete. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
All knowledge that is not the real product of observation, or of consequences deduced from observation, is entirely groundless and illusory. -- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory. -- Matthieu Ricard
I am discovering how my consciousness dominating addictions create my illusory version of the changing world of people and situations around me. -- Ken Keyes Jr.
All is a play in consciousness. All divisions are illusory. You can know the false only. The true you must yourself be. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Electronic communication is an instantaneous and illusory contact that creates a sense of intimacy without the emotional investment that leads to close friendships. -- Clifford Stoll
[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion. -- Clive Barker
Oh son, watch the illusory spectacle! All birth and death is projected by delusion, not existing in reality. I am beyond coming and going. -- Dzongsar Khyentse Chokyi Lodro
There is an untroubled harmony in everything, a full consonance in nature; only in our illusory freedom do we feel at variance with it. -- Fyodor Tyutchev
Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language. -- Karl Kraus
Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory. Laws of physics determine the future. -- Brian Greene
You don't have to push or pull or fight or win, the struggle is illusory. Sometimes or rather, all times, you just have to be. -- Andrew McMahon
The condition of humankind is not good, in the sense that the illusory prisons we create for ourselves through our desires and our frustrations are unhappy. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency? -- Marquis de Sade
The left-hand path adept seeks to liberate him/herself from passive subjection to the illusory nature of Maya, thus freeing the consciousness from the binds of self-created delusion. -- Zeena Schreck
Of all the vulgar arts of government, that of solving every difficulty that might arise by thrusting the hand into the public purse is the most illusory and contemptible. -- Robert Peel
We become obsessed with 'truth' when discussing statements, just as we become obsessed with 'freedom' when discussing conduct...Like freedom, truth is a bare minimum or an illusory ideal. -- J. L. Austin
Be purposeful in your actions. Be mindful to keep your behavior in alignment with your goals. Remember, you can refine, improve, and enhance yourself; all other control is illusory. -- Steve Maraboli
Fantasy plunders the well of our deepest selves for existent truth instead of creating new truths out of the illusory fabric of recent events or the flow of society. -- Vera Nazarian
Economic theory has demonstrated in an irrefutable way that a prosperity created by an expansionist monetary and credit policy is illusory and must end in a slump, an economic crisis. -- Ludwig von Mises
Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false Self. We are not very good at recognizing illusions, least of all the ones we cherish about ourselves. -- Thomas Merton
Relativity propped it up, at least gave it the illusion of being there"¦the way all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted. -- Joe Haldeman
Now, more than ever, I realize just how illusory my undeserved success has been. I still hold out some hope of doing better, but age and unhappiness have sapped my strength. -- Claude Monet
To transcend the identification with the body one has to realize the auspiciousness and divinity residing within each cell of the body. One needs to realize the illusory nature of the body. -- Amit Ray
Thus it is, we sow motions of hatred out of our own impoverished understanding of love. Yet we do so in the name of love. The perplexing precipice of the illusory infirmity. -- Steven Storm
A happy life, a life making full use of all our potential is and must be a balanced life. The obstacles to it are mainly illusory; most of our limitations are self-imposed. -- Louis Tice
Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to becomes master of your own destiny, you have more to learn. -- Michael J. Fox
The search "Who am I"...ends in the annihilation of the illusory "I" and the Self which remains over will be as clear as a gooseberry in the palm of one's hand. -- Ramana Maharshi
Love does not make you weak, because it is the source of all strength, but it makes you see the nothingness of the illusory strength on which you depended before you knew it. -- Leon Bloy
A vital function of the free market is to penalize inefficiency and misjudgment and to reward efficiency and good judgment. By distorting economic calculations and creating illusory profits, inflation will destroy this function. -- Henry Hazlitt
Do not be proud of wealth, people, relations and friends, or youth. All these are snatched by time in the blink of an eye. Giving up this illusory world, know and attain the Supreme. -- Adi Shankara
All choices are illusions, or if they are not illusions their strength is illusory, for one choice must contend with the choices of all the other men and women deciding anything in that moment. -- Kevin Powers
Rooting in work is crucial to any accomplishment. Rooting in mere enthusiasm will in the long run force illusory measures to keep the fires of empty enthusiasm going. And this makes politics and politicians. -- Wilhelm Reich
Sydney Smith playfully says that common sense was invented by Socrates, that philosopher having been one of its most conspicuous exemplars in conducting the contest of practical sagacity against stupid prejudice and illusory beliefs. -- Edwin Percy Whipple
Does one get faith by mere studying of books? Too much reading creates confusion. The Master used to say that one should learn from the scriptures that God alone is real and the world illusory. -- Sarada Devi

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