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“You see, my good friend, how much we are the creatures of situation and circumstance, and with what pliant servility the mind resigns itself to the impressions of the senses, or the illusions of the imagination”

Mind Imagination Situation Circumstances Creatures Illusion Senses Impression Good Friend Servility

Book:The wild Irish girl: a national tale

Source: The wild Irish girl: a national tale

“No, there is now no circumstance known in which it can be affirmed that microscopic beings came into the world without germs, without parents similar to themselves. Those who affirm it have been duped by illusions, by ill-conducted experiments, spoilt by errors that they either did not perceive or did not know how to avoid.”

Knows World Has Beens Parent Known Know How Circumstances Illusion Errors Ill Experiments Perceive Germs Spoilt

Author:Louis Pasteur

“My heart is tuned to sorrow, and the strings Vibrate most readily to minor chords, Searching and sad; my mind is stuffed with words Which voice the passion and the ache of things: Illusions beating with their baffled wings Against the walls of circumstance.”

Mind Heart Passion Voice Wall My Heart Circumstances Sorrow Illusion Wings Strings Minors Ache Chords Vibrate Baffled

Book:Complete poetical works: With an introd. by Louis Untermeyer

Source: Complete poetical works: With an introd. by Louis Untermeyer

“Personal, inner change without a change in circumstances and structures is an idealist illusion, as though man were only a soul and not a body as well.”

Men Wells Soul Body Circumstances Illusion Structure Idealist

Author:Jürgen Moltmann

“Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.”

People Trying Looks Has Beens Problem Enjoy Circumstances Taste Creating Illusion Who You Are Odd Precious Life How Precious Life Is

Author:Anne Lamott

“I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner.”

Thinking Knows Men Persons Ideas Given Childhood Circumstances Easier Illusion Raised Solitary Casual Loner

Author:Steve Martin

“How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you been denied--or, for that matter, awarded--because someone failed to see you properly? How many friends have you lost, how many have you gained, because they glimpsed some element of your personality that shone through for only an instant, and in circumstances you could never reproduce? An illusion of water shimmering at the far bend of a highway.”

Matter Opportunity Lost Water Wonder Personality Circumstances Elements Illusion Instant Denied Misunderstanding Highways Many Friends

Book:The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories

Source: The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories