“The pains that you suffer, the loneliness that you encounter, the experiences that are disappointing or distressing, the addictions and seeming pitfalls of your life are each doorways to awareness. Each offers you an opportunity to see beyond the illusion that serves as the balancing and growth of your soul.” SoulPainSufferingOpportunityGrowthAwarenessLonelinessOffersIllusionAddictionYour SoulEncountersSeemingDisappointingDoorwaysPitfallsDistressing Author:Gary Zukav
“Societies held together by fear and repression may offer the illusion of stability for a time, but they are built upon fault lines that will eventually tear asunder.” MayTogetherLinesPowerfulTearsOffersIllusionBuiltFaultsStabilityRepression Author:Barack Obama
“Even in an intensely mediated world, in a world that offers at least the illusion of radical self-invention and radical freedom of choice, I as a novelist am drawn to the things you can't get away from. Because much of the promise of radical self-invention, of defining yourself through this marvelous freedom of choice, it's just a lie. It's a lie that we all buy into, because it helps the economy run.” WorldSelfHelpingRunningLyingChoicesEconomyPromiseOffersIllusionInventionRadicalNovelistsGet AwayMarvelousDefiningFreedom Of ChoiceDefine Yourself Author:Jonathan Franzen
“The world of shapes, lines, curves, and solids is as varied as the world of numbers, and it is only our long-satisfied possession of Euclidean geometry that offers us the impression, or the illusion, that it has, that world, already been encompassed in a manageable intellectual structure. The lineaments of that structure are well known: as in the rest of life, something is given and something is gotten; but the logic behind those lineaments is apt to pass unnoticed, and it is the logic that controls the system.” WorldWellsLongGivenLinesNumbersBehindsKnownOffersShapesIntellectualIllusionLogicStructurePossessionImpressionSatisfiedWell KnownCurvesGeometryUnnoticedManageableRest Of Life Book:The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World Source: The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World
“When white men first effect contact with some unspoilt race of savages, they offer them all kinds of benefits, from the light of the gospel to pumpkin pie. These, however, much as we may regret it, most savages receive with indifference. What they really value among the gifts that we bring to them is intoxicating liquor which enables them, for the first time in their lives, to have the illusion for a few brief moments that it is better to be alive than dead.” MenFirstsKindMayMomentsLightValuesWhiteRaceAliveEffectsRegretOffersBenefitsIllusionFirst TimeContactAll KindsIndifferencePieSavagesWhite ManLiquorPumpkinBrief MomentsPumpkin Pie Book:Human Society in Ethics and Politics Source: Human Society in Ethics and Politics
“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.” IfsWantTwoAbilityPartyLeaderDemocracyTakenCitizensOffersIllusionSignificantConcealedCitizenry Author:Glenn Greenwald
“We offer them mediocrity while calling it magic. We offer them the illusion of intelligent software, seducing them into surrendering the task of thinking to the machine. Of course, the machine isn't thinking, which means that nobody is.” ThinkingMeanCoursesMagicCallingOffersIllusionTasksMachinesIntelligentSoftwareMediocritySeducing Author:Larry Constantine
“Cupid is anything but cute. As for handing our hearts, he’s more likely to rip them out. (Julian) But he can make people fall in love. (Selena) No. What he offers is an illusion. No power from above can make one human love another. Love comes from within the heart. (Julian)” PeopleHumansHeartFallOffersIllusionFalling In LoveCuteRipCupidHuman Love Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon