#illu

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#desires #fact #falls #illusion #instinctual

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality. ↗

— Judy Garland

#born #cast #death #dreams #fed

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. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#been #circumstances #creating #enjoy #find

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination. ↗

— Andrew Lang

#illumination #lamp #man #posts #rather

Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions. ↗

— John Langdon

#design #illusions #interwoven #into #language

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. ↗

— Lewis H. Lapham

#business #illusion #innocence #must #other

In the fire of his embrace, all that was her ceased to exist. Only what was God remained. I am. The cloisterbell, the voice of Christ. He spoke again: I am. She tried to obey but was frozen in beauty, like a fly trapped in amber. She could not move. Nothing exists apart from me. Self had been an illusion, a dream. God dreaming. ↗

— Mark Salzman

#self-is-an-illusion #the-voice-of-god #beauty

Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they had magic or religious significance. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#catching #example #figures #had #illustrate

The author knows just what he wants to illustrate and how he would like it to be done. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#done #how #illustrate #just #knows

The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That's the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That's worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth. ↗

— Ang Lee

#comes #essence #illusion #immaterial #life