illusion

But the world is out there, and it understands that the illusion of knowledge and freedom is not the same as the real thing. Eventually it will fade, and there are those who will do whatever it takes to make that happen sooner rather than later.

I don't mean to defend zoos. Close them all down if you want (and let us hope that what wildlife remains can survive in what is left of the natural world). I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusion about freedom plague them both.

We believe that it is possible for scientific work to gain some knowledge about the reality of the world, by means of which we can increase out power and in accordance with which we can arrange our life. If this belief is an illusion, then we are in the same position as you. But science has given us evidence by its numerous and important successes that it is no illusion.

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.

Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.

Limits, like fear, is often an illusion.

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.

Those who lose dreaming are lost.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition oft got without merit and lost without deserving.

Winston Churchill is always expecting rabbits to come out of an empty hat.

Magic lives in curves not angles.

It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you for it was the illusion they loved.

Aspects are within us and who seems most kingly is king.

Every real object must cease to be what it seemed and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.