Best illusion & two Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Frankly, to be honest, I hadn't worked for two years before 'Murphy Brown.' It's a nice illusion now to think of all of us as terribly successful and talented people at the top of our profession, but that's hindsight. I had to pray for a job like this.”

People Thinking Years Two Jobs Successful Nice Honest Praying Illusion Profession Being Honest Brown Two Years Hindsight Murphy Murphy Brown

Author:Charles Kimbrough

“The experience of love and the experience of death destroy the illusion of our self-sufficiency. The two are closely connected, and to become fully human we must experience both of them.”

Humans Two Self Illusion Experience Connected Self Sufficiency Sufficiency

Author:David Steindl-Rast

“The peculiarity of sculpture is that it creates a three-dimensional object in space. Painting may strive to give on a two-dimensional plane, the illusion of space, but it is space itself as a perceived quantity that becomes the peculiar concern of the sculptor. We may say that for the painter space is a luxury; for the sculptor it is a necessity.”

Giving May Two Three Space Objects Painting Illusion Concern Strive Painter Luxury Planes Peculiar Quantity Sculpture Sculptors

Author:Herbert Read

“To ensure that our views are credible, our brain accepts what our eye sees. To ensure that our views are positive, our eye looks for what our brain wants. The conspiracy between these two servants allows us to live at the fulcrum of stark reality and comforting illusion.”

Want Looks Two Reality Eye Views Brain Accepting Illusion Servant Conspiracy Comforting Starks Credible Fulcrum Stark Reality

Book:Stumbling on Happiness

Source: Stumbling on Happiness

“But deepest of all illusory Appearances, for hiding Wonder, as for many other ends, are your two grand fundamental world-enveloping Appearances, SPACE and TIME. These, as spun and woven for us from before Birth itself, to clothe our celestial ME for dwelling here, and yet to blind it, lie all-embracing, as the universal canvas, or warp and woof, whereby all minor Illusions, in this Phantasm Existence, weave and paint themselves. In vain, while here on Earth, shall you endeavor to strip them off; you can, at best, but rend them asunder for moments, and look through.”

Source: Carlyle Reader

“Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow. It is like lightning and thunder. They occur simultaneously, but sound, travelling slower than light, reaches you later, creating the illusion of two separate events.”

Two Light Sound Events Movement Creating Illusion Capture Lightning Thunder

Author:U.G. Krishnamurti

“Thus, the distance between any two galaxies increases in time, creating the illusion of mechanical motion. But in reality, galaxies just sit there, contemplating the spectacle of the universe creating more and more space in between them.”

Two Reality Universe Space Creating Illusion Increase Distance Contemplating Galaxy

Book:Faster Than The Speed Of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation

Source: Faster Than The Speed Of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation

“The War Party has two wings: the Democrats and the Republicans. All others are outsiders, whose ability to storm the gates is 'legally' restricted by a nearly impassable series of bureaucratic obstacles designed to keep them out while still maintaining the 'democratic' illusion, i.e. the phony two-party system, which is in reality a single entity.”

Stills Two War Reality Ability Party Republican Illusion Wings Democratic Series Democrat Obstacles Storm Gates Outsiders Entity Maintaining Phony Two Party System

Author:Justin Raimondo

“Our moral reasoning is plagued by two illusions. The first illusion can be called the wag-the-dog illusion: We believe that our own moral judgment (the dog) is driven by our own moral reasoning (the tail). The second illusion can be called the wag-theother-dog's-tail illusion: In a moral argument, we expect the successful rebuttal of an opponent's arguments to change the opponent's mind. Such a belief is like thinking that forcing a dog's tail to wag by moving it with your hand will make the dog happy.”

“To me, the art of movies is to take a two-dimensional image and give the illusion of depth.”

Giving Art Two Illusion Depth

Author:William Friedkin

“Whether for good or evil, it is sadly inevitable that all political leadership requires the artifices of theatrical illusion. In the politics of a democracy, the shortest distance between two points is often a crooked line.”

Two Political Evil Lines Democracy Illusion Distance Inevitable Theatrical Crooked Artifice Political Leadership Crooked Lines

Author:Arthur Miller

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

People Two Dream Illusion Cease

Author:Philip K. Dick

“You can offer the ability to citizens to choose from one of the two parties and elect their leaders as much as you want. But "democracy" is an illusion - a sham - if the most significant acts taken by those leaders are kept concealed from the citizenry.”

Ifs Want Two Ability Party Leader Democracy Taken Citizens Offers Illusion Significant Concealed Citizenry

Author:Glenn Greenwald

“When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you? The two are so, so different. One is an infinite consciousness capable of being and creating whatever it chooses, the other is an illusion imprisoned by its own perceived and programmed limitations.”

Believe Looks Has Beens Two Different Real Consciousness Creating Capable Illusion Infinite Mirrors Limitation Real You Infinite Consciousness

Author:David Icke

“One way of saying that is that there is an objective reality beyond our mind. A way to think of this in a philosophic sense is to look between the two great extremes: the idealist philosophy that says mind and consciousness is the only thing and that matter is simply an illusion, or a Maya, the product of mind; and the other extreme, a strict materialist determinism, which says that mind and consciousness is a secondary phenomenon of the collision of matter.”

“Usually, about two years of work go into each illusion, whether it's big or small. Two years of work on each five-minute piece.”

Years Two Bigs Five Pieces Minutes Illusion Two Years Five Minutes

Author:David Copperfield

“My hunch, for what it's worth, is that most of us probably find it much, much harder than we realize to really imagine what catastrophe is like. I have a hunch that we all labor under this rather convenient illusion that if we read about the Syrian refugee crisis, we can imagine what it feels like to set off from your home and your life with all your possessions in two bin liners. We all think that we can imagine that and my guess is that none of us have got a clue.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Two Home Realizing Imagine Illusion Labor Harder Crisis Possession Imagine That Catastrophe Clue Refugee Convenient Hunches Refugee Crisis Syrian Refugees

Author:Decca Aitkenhead

“What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your face squashed up against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face. Your own skin like a map, a diagram of futility, criscrossed with tiny roads that lead nowhere. Otherwise you live in the moment. Which is not where I want to be.”

“Synchronize watches at oh six hundred' says the infantry captain, and each of his huddled lieutenants finds respite from fear in the act of bringing two tiny pointers into jeweled alignment while tons of heavy artillery go fluttering overhead: the prosaic, civilian-looking dial of the watch has restored, however briefly, an illusion of personal control. Good, it counsels, looking tidily up from the hairs and veins of each terribly vulnerable wrist; fine: so far, everything's happening right on time.”

Two Watches Hair Fine Six Happenings Illusion Hundred Heavy Tiny Vulnerable Captains Veins Civilians Alignment Wrists Overhead Artillery Fluttering Lieutenants Infantry Respite Pointers

Book:Revolutionary Road

Source: Revolutionary Road

“In politics, as in every other sphere of life, there are two important principles for a man of any sense: don't cherish too many illusions, and never stop believing that every little bit helps.”

Men Believe Littles Two Important Helping Bits Principles Little Bit Illusion Cherish Spheres Never Stop Believing

Book:The Watcher and Other Stories

Source: The Watcher and Other Stories

“Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.”

Should Mind Firsts Believe Humans Two Fool Limits Illusion Mad Instance Human Mind Futility

Book:Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man

Source: Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man

“Of all the islands he'd visited, two stood out. The island of the past, he said, where the only time was past time and the inhabitants were bored and more or less happy, but where the weight of illusion was so great that the island sank a little deeper into the river every day. And the island of the future, where the only time was the future, and the inhabitants were planners and strivers, such strivers, said Ulises, that they were likely to end up devouring one another.”

Littles Said Two Ends Past Illusion Rivers Weight Deeper Bored Islands Only Time Planners Devouring Strivers

Author:Roberto Bolano

“There was pain, but there was also joy. It was in the tension between the two that life happened. Imperfect as it was, this world was real. Illusion was no substitute. I'd rather live a hard life of fact than a sweet life of lies.”

World Two Real Hard Facts Pain Joy Lying Happened This World Sweet Illusion Tension Substitutes Imperfect Hard Life Sweet Life

Book:The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned

Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned

“The two of you are getting downright chatty, aren't you, Ms. Lane? When did you last see him? what else did he tell you? I'm asking the questions tonight. If an illusion of control comforts you, Ms. Lane, by all means, cling to it.”

Ifs Mean Two Lasts Comfort Illusion Asking Tonight Lanes Illusion Of Control

Book:Bloodfever: Fever Series

Source: Bloodfever: Fever Series

“She wasn't, nor ever had been, under the illusion that marriage was a relationship characterized by endless bliss and romance. Throw any two people together, add the inevitable ups and downs, give the mixture a vigorous stir, and a few stormy arguments were inevitable, no matter how the couple loved each other.”

People Giving Two Matter Together Romance Couple Illusion Argument Add Endless Inevitable Bliss Mixtures Ups & Downs Vigorous Stormy Best Of Me

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“They stared at her curiously, and she caught snatches of conversation in two or three languages. It wasn't hard to guess their content, and she smiled a bit primly. Youth, it appeared, was full of illusions as to how much sexual energy two people might have to spare while hiking forty or so kilometers a day, concussed, stunned, diseased, on poor food and little sleep, alternating caring for a wounded man with avoiding becoming dinner for every carnivore within range - and with a coup to plan for the end.”

“And as much as I’d like to believe there’s a truth beyond illusion, I’ve come to believe that there’s no truth beyond illusion. Because, between ‘reality’ on the one hand, and the point where the mind strikes reality, there’s a middle zone, a rainbow edge where beauty comes into being, where two very different surfaces mingle and blur to provide what life does not: and this is the space where all art exists, and all magic.”

Mind Believe Doe Art Two Different Hands Reality Space Magic Middle Illusion Edges Surface Strikes Zone Rainbow Blur

Author:Donna Tartt

“Birth leads to death, death precedes birth. So if you want to see life as it really is, it is rounded on both the sides by death. Death is the beginning and death is again the end, and life is just the illusion in between. You feel alive between two deaths; the passage joining one death to another you call life. Buddha says this is not life. This life is dukkha - misery. This life is death.”

Ifs Want Feels Two Ends Life Is Death Sides Alive Birth Illusion Misery This Life Passages Joining

Author:Rajneesh

“The master and the student on the journey to mastery, knows that the illusions are the illusions, decides why they are there, and then consciously creates what will be experienced next within the self through the illusions. When facing any life experience, there is a formula, a process, through which you may choose to move through mastery. Simply make the following statements: One, nothing in my world is real. Two, The meaning of everything is the meaning I give it. Three, I am who I say I am, and my experience is what I say it is. This is how to work with the illusions of life.”

Knows World Life Giving May Two Real Self Moving Three Next Process Journey Students Masters Illusion Following Statements Formulas Mastery Life Experience Illusions Of Life

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“The things that matter in this country have been reduced in choice, there are two political parties, there are a handful insurance companies, there are six or seven information centers.. but if you want a bagel there are 23 flavors. Because you have the illusion of choice!”

“Friend, many and many a dream is mere confusion a cobweb of no consequence at all. Two gates for ghostly dreams there are: One gateway of honest horn, and one of ivory. Issuing by the ivory gate are dreams of glimmering illusion, fantasies, but those that come through solid polished horn may be borne out, if mortals only know them.”

Ifs Knows May Two Dream Fantasy Honest Illusion Consequence Mere Confusion Mortals Gates Horns Polished Ivory Gateways Cobwebs

Book:The odyssey

Source: The odyssey

“THE ULTIMATE METAPHYSICAL SECRET, if we dare state it so simply, is that there are no boundaries in the universe. Boundaries are illusions, products not of reality but of the way we map and edit reality. And while it is fine to map out the territory, it is fatal to confuse the two.”

Ifs Way Two States Reality Universe Secret Products Fine Illusion Ultimate Dare Boundaries Maps Territory Metaphysical Edits No Boundaries

Book:No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth

Source: No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth

“To me, spirituality is about two things: The liberation of consciousness from all illusion, so that the true nature can shine and an embodiment in life that is an alternative to the patterns of manipulation and greed that dominate our current culture.”

Two Spiritual Culture Spirituality Consciousness Illusion Shining Greed Patterns Currents Alternatives Liberation Two Things Mysticism Manipulation True Nature Embodiment

Author:John William Willis-Bund

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