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“The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state of affairs: enantiodromia, or the Greek notion of things turning into their opposite.”

People Ideas States Bigs Kids Effort Behinds Huge Illusion Capacity Opposites Notion Affair Currents Greek Delusion Living On Old Ideas

Author:James Hillman

“People in this day and age are still under the illusion that every woman who is successful must be being controlled by a man... I'm the boss.”

People Men Stills Age Successful Illusion Boss This Day Controlled

Author:Lily Allen

“They remain dead, the people I try to resuscitate by straining to hear what they say. But the illusion is not pointless, or not quite, even if the reader knows all this better than I do. One thing a book tries to do, beneath the disguise of words and causes and clothes and grief, is show the skeleton and the skeleton dust to come. The author too, like those of whom he speaks, is dead.”

People Ifs Knows Trying Book Shows Speak Causes Grief One Thing Reader Clothes Illusion Dust Disguise Pointless Skeletons

Book:Prisoner of Love

Source: Prisoner of Love

“The only people who become disillusioned are people who have illusions.”

People Illusion Disillusioned

Author:Saul Alinsky

“The internet has spawned people for whom knowingness is more important than knowledge. It equips you with the illusion of offering knowledge instantly - and quite easily - so you can read a few articles on a few subjects and feel well informed but not actually know any of those subjects in any depth.”

People Knows Feels Wells Important Subjects Internet Illusion Depth Articles Offering

Author:Pankaj Mishra

“Like the actor, authority has faith in its false whiskers. But its deepest faith is in the human illusion. People will hang on to illusion as eagerly as life itself.”

People Humans Actors Authority Illusion Have Faith Whiskers

Author:Ben Hecht

“When two people dream the same dream, it ceases to be an illusion.”

People Two Dream Illusion Cease

Author:Philip K. Dick

“You'll find that marriage is a good short cut to the truth. No, not quite that. A way of doubling back to the truth. Another thing you'll find is that the years of illusion aren't those of adolescense, as the grown-ups try to tell us; they're the ones immediately after it, say the middle twenties, the false maturity if you like, when you first get thoroughly embroiled in things and lose your head. Your age, by the way, Jim. That's when you first realize that sex is important to other people besides yourself. A discovery like that can't help knocking you off balance for a time.”

People Ifs Way Trying Years Firsts Important Helping Age Sex Realizing Loses Cutting Middle Balance Illusion Discovery Twenties Maturity Knocking Short Cuts

Author:Kingsley Amis

“Democratic regimes may be defined as those in which, every now and then, the people are given the illusion of being sovereign, while the true sovereignty in actual fact resides in other forces which are sometimes irresponsible and secret.”

People May Sometimes Facts Given Force Secret Illusion Democratic Defined Regimes Now And Then Sovereign Sovereignty Irresponsible

Author:Benito Mussolini

“An Animated Cartoon Theology: 1. People are animals. 2. The body is mortal and subject to incredible pain. 3. Life is antagonistic to the living. 4. The flesh can be sawed, crushed, frozen, stretched, burned, bombed, and plucked for music. 5. The dumb are abused by the smart and the smart destroyed by their own cunning. 6. The small are tortured by the large and the large destroyed by their own momentum. 7. We are able to walk on air, but only as long as our illusion supports us.”

People Long Body Able Pain Life Is Walks Animal Support Air Subjects Smart Illusion Incredibles Flesh Theology Destroyed Mortals Dumb Burned Cartoon Frozen Cunning Momentum Crushed Animated

Author:E. L. Doctorow

“My ultimare goal is, without illusion and without sentimentality, merely by telling the truth as I see it, to break your heart. If I can break your heart and cause your awareness to expand to include another person's experience, even a fictional person's experience, and to inhabit for a moment their sorrow and suffering, then I think it expands us as people.”

People Ifs Thinking Heart Persons I Can Moments Suffering Causes Goal Break Awareness Sorrow Illusion Telling The Truth Sentimentality Break Your Heart

Author:Nic Pizzolatto

“When self-important people and powerful institutions are governed by illusion, history has a way of biting back.”

People Way Important Self Powerful Illusion Institutions Biting

Author:William Greider

“Beneath all the rhetoric about relevance lies a profoundly disturbing possibility - that people may base their lives upon an illusion, upon a blatant lie. The attractiveness of a belief is all too often inversely proportional to its truth... To allow "relevance" to be given greater weight than truth is a mark of intellectual shallowness and moral irresponsibility.”

“I never felt big enough playing Thor. And then people talk about you like you're 9-foot tall and 800 pounds. I'm well aware of the illusion. There's not a second where I go: Yeah, I'm a god.”

People Wells Enough Bigs Felt Feet Like You Illusion Yeah Pounds Tall

Author:Chris Hemsworth

“Illusions as bad as mine make people aware of the fallacies of visual information and the pleasure to be derived from such fallacies.”

People Pleasure Information Mines Illusion Visuals Fallacy

Book:Vik Muniz: seeing is believing

Source: Vik Muniz: seeing is believing

“The grass is always greener. You think how wonderful it would be to be someone else, but I don't think I would like it. I'm thrilled to observe other people, but I don't want to be in their shoes. If I got there, I might find it not quite what I expected, and it would break my illusion, and I don't want that!”

People Ifs Thinking Want Might Would Be Break Wonderful Illusion Shoes Expected Grass Greener Grass Is Always Greener

Author:Marti Webb

“I'm not trying to defend Israel. What I'm telling my nation is that Israel is just like any other state, and I want them to get out of the illusion that Jewish people are evil, and that all they want is to kill Muslims and Palestinians. I want them to understand that their biggest problem is not Israel.”

People Want Trying States Problem Evil Nations Illusion Israel Palestinian

Author:Mosab Hassan Yousef

“A lot of times, our guides are at the same level that we are at spiritually. We are their jobs, and they are growing through our life experiences. People have this illusion that their guides are all-knowing and all-wise, and why would we need God if we have our guides?”

People Ifs Needs Jobs Levels Knowing Wise Our Lives Growing Illusion Guides Life Experience Need God

Author:Echo Bodine

“My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person. People are only glamorous if you don't see them. Like the movies used to make people years ago. There is something about people on screen that makes them so special; when you see them in person, they are so different and the whole illusion is gone.”

People Ifs Years Persons Ideas Different Whole Used Gone Focus Special Illusion Years Ago Screens Glamorous

Author:Andy Warhol

“People have put a lot of faith in the government's ability to get growth going in China. People have this, what I think, illusion that there are six people in China who really have their hand on every button. And what we're learning is, it's a very big economy and they're not that good at it.”

People Thinking Hands Bigs Government Growth Ability Economy Six Illusion China Buttons

Author:David Wessel

“Once you empower people and say,' Here you are, now you get to dream the great dream of becoming a full citizen with equal rights and radical improvement in your living situation,' you are creating an illusion which will break one day.”

People Dream Situation Break Rights Becoming Citizens One Day Equal Creating Illusion Improvement Radical Empowering Equal Rights

Author:Pankaj Mishra

“People say I write specifically about nothing in particular. I don't know about the latter part, but I think the first part is really important in conjuring up a voice that works, or at least the illusion of a voice at work.”

People Thinking Knows Writing Firsts Important Voice Particular Illusion Latter Conjuring

Author:Dan Bejar

“We still have the illusion that the ocean will recover. That even if we do have to lose sharks, people don't understand why this matters. The evidence is in front of us, and we fail to take it in and say, "Now I get it. Now I understand."”

People Ifs Stills Matter Loses Failing Fronts Ocean Illusion Evidence Sharks

Author:Sylvia Earle

“I think people should have no illusions that Hillary [Clinton] is going to solve the climate crisis for us. We are in as much trouble with fracking as we are with coal. They both need to be stopped.”

People Thinking Needs Should Trouble Illusion Should Have Crisis Clinton Climate Solve Coal Fracking

Author:Jill Stein

“I think many people have an illusion of success based on entering in at a level that's higher than their experiences.”

People Thinking Levels Higher Illusion Entering

Author:T. D. Jakes

“Debts grow and grow. And the more they grow, the more they shrink the economy. When you shrink the economy, you shrink the ability to pay the debts, so it's all an illusion that the system can be saved. The question is, how long are people going to be willing to live in this illusion?”

People Long Grows Ability Pay Economy Willing Illusion Debt Saved Shrinks

Author:Michael Hudson

“The illusion of life is crucial for the work, otherwise the ideas wouldn't be able to jump across, people wouldn't engage with it.”

People Ideas Able Life Is Illusion Crucial Illusions Of Life

Author:Patricia Piccinini

“When the dimensional shift gets to a certain level, guess what? The illusion won't be able to remain stable anymore, and so people will simply wake up and remember who they are! That's going to happen to a certain group of people.”

People Happens Able Remember Certain Levels Groups Illusion Wake Up Stable

Author:Christine McCormick Day

“The notion that somehow through a trade war or protectionism or magical thinking that we're going to return to a romanticized economic past is, in the end, going to be an illusion. And a severe disappointment to millions of decent, hard-working people.”

People Thinking War Ends Hard Past Millions Economic Hard Work Return Illusion Trade Notion Disappointment Decent Severe Protectionism Magical Thinking

Author:David Remnick

“The magic of comics is that there are three people involved in any comic. There's whoever's writing it and whoever's drawing it. And then there's whoever's reading it because they are creating the movement. They are creating the illusion of time passing.”

People Writing Three Reading Magic Movement Involved Creating Illusion Drawing Passing Passings Comic Time Passing Time Passes Illusion Of Time

Author:Neil Gaiman

“I think that the development of any culture has something to do with the way people deal with the concept of illusion. The fact that the sound of my voice and the way I modulate it creates pictures in your head... in order for us to accumulate knowledge, we have to create symbolic exchanges that let ourselves be fooled temporarily by something that's not there - by a substitute for reality. When you talk about representation, you're talking about language.”

People Thinking Way Facts Reality Order Culture Language Sound Voice Deals Talking Development Illusion Concepts Substitutes Representation Symbolic Fooled

Author:Vik Muniz

“I don't want to fool people. If I wanted to do that, I would be working with virtual reality. I want to operate on the other level, the other end of the illusion spectrum. I want to create the worst possible illusions so it doesn't really fool people, but instead give people a measure of their own belief. It makes them aware of how much they need to be fooled in order to understand the world around them.”

People Ifs World Want Needs Giving Ends Reality Would Be Wanted Order Belief Levels Worst Fool Illusion Spectrum Fooled Virtual Reality

Author:Vik Muniz

“Would it be better if religions were to disappear? I have no idea. Since I do not have any confidence in the association of truth with virtue, I am not sure if the world would be a better place if people believed more true things. But what is undeniable is that we cannot understand our own culture unless we recognise that it was formed, for good or bad, as a Christian culture. It's an illusion that we could somehow recover a human essence which is independent of the way it was created by culture.”

People World Christian Culture Virtue Illusion Independent Disappear Not Sure

Author:Tim Crane

“I am here to tell you there's nothing in people knowing you. There's actually a loss in that! Really, the reward in life is genuinely the day of work you have. It's not the name you're making for yourself or the clicks and likes - it's such an illusion.”

People Loss Illusion

Author:Lauren Graham

“People create the illusion of acting natural, which is what I think most documentarians do in part because of the direct cinema orthodoxies that came into play really in the '60s. That moment of performance is a tremendous opportunity to make visible something hitherto invisible, which is how people want to be seen. How do they see themselves? What are the scripts, fantasies, genres by which they imagine themselves? How is storytelling part of what we are as human beings? We wouldn't kill each other en masse if it weren't for storytelling. We wouldn't be able to live with ourselves.”

People Thinking Moments Opportunity Natural Acting Fantasy Imagine Illusion Direct Invisible Storytelling

Author:Joshua Oppenheimer

“You see a lot of interesting visual irony on movie sets all the time, you know duality, set illusions, the reality, all that stuff. You play with interesting materials that you couldn't afford to otherwise. You meet interesting people that you work with, have special machinists or mold makers and make-up people, and people who make prosthetic appliances for actress' faces. It's really interesting kind of witch's brew of people in that business, aside from the sleeze bags you hear about on the financial end.”

People Kind Reality Interesting Special Illusion Financial Irony Duality Really Interesting

Author:Michael C. McMillen

“The technological age we're in now is the perfect forum for constant misdirection and constant distraction. I ultimately think it's a war to keep people from realizing the true nature of themselves and the true nature of life. All the things people are in pursuit of now, in 2014, are total illusions. It just destroys people's happiness.”

People Thinking War Age Realizing Perfect Illusion Distraction Technological

Author:Mark McGwire

“I feel totally disconnected from reality in Washington. Maybe I'm just really pretentious - in fact, I probably am - but I feel like people in this city have no idea about where their reality is coming from and who is helping them to live in this illusion. I've gone from the south side of Chicago, where everyone is completely unrealistic about what's important in life to a place like this, where people are still unrealistic about what's important, but it's on two opposite sides of the spectrum. I just get tired of it all. It makes me really, really angry.”

People Important Helping Reality Illusion Tired Pretentious

Author:Willis Earl Beal

“The most fascinating part of movies is the organism of the movie - it's such a bizarre thing to do, to make a movie. To see these people come together, band in unity, to create this thing that almost doesn't exist. It only exists because it's projected on a screen, but other than that, it's an illusion.”

People Together Illusion Unity Bizarre

Author:Michael Shannon

“I think it just really excites me, the idea of delving so far into a character that people actually believe it's real, and I start to believe it's real. It's a strange thing to say, but it's the thrill of getting all the details right and being so absorbed in the character that people go along with the illusion.”

People Thinking Believe Real Character Strange Illusion

Author:Chris Lilley

“I think sometimes people become quite emotional about the characters as well, and that's pretty cool that you can get that emotion out of people. And I think that's more my motivation than like, "Hey I want to be the funny guy, I want to be that famous funny guy." That doesn't sit as well with me as the idea of taking people on this ride and taking them into the illusion of the characters. That's much more exciting for me.”

People Thinking Sometimes Character Motivation Guy Emotion Emotional Illusion Exciting Funny Guy

Author:Chris Lilley

“When you've got a economy in which 40 percent of economic growth is happening in the financial sector, that turns out that was all an illusion, that it wasn't growth based on real products and services, but just a bunch of paper shuffling and a house of cards, then what's gonna emerge, at some point, is a sense of resentment, a sense that the system's rigged, and it's not working for ordinary people. And it's not fulfilling the basic American dream.”

People Real Dream House Growth Economy Economic Illusion Financial Resentment American Dream Fulfilling Ordinary People Economic Growth

Author:Barack Obama

“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

“These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again.”

People Way Artist Worship Illusion Critics Idols Idol Worship

Author:John Lennon

“I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.”

People Mind Looks My Own Illusion Focused

Author:Alexander McQueen

“Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.”

People Pleasure Path Illusion Free Will Greatest Pleasures

Author:Scott Adams

“People may think I'm trying something new by telling stories, but they're just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That's what I do.”

People Thinking Giving Trying May Stories Imagination Creating Jokes Illusion Connected Something New My Imagination Telling Stories Trying Something Trying Something New

Author:Steven Wright

“I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action.”

People Thinking Giving Action Political Illusion Meaningful Mail Participating Petitions Political Action

Author:Howard Rheingold

“A lot of people do that kind of nostalgia stuff believing that they were very happy in their teenage years, but that's probably just an illusion.”

People Years Believe Kind Stuff Illusion Nostalgia Very Happy Teenage Teenage Years

Author:Jo Brand

“The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples illusions which I have encouraged people to create in their heads. Film doesn't create illusion. It makes them impossible. It is a bullying form of reality, like the model rooms in the furniture department of Bloomingdale's.”

People Reality Film Form Rooms Views Impossible Worst Models Illusion Point Of View Department Bullying Worst Things Furniture Cripples

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

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