#illu

Wisdom comes by disillusionment. ↗

— George Santayana

#disillusionment #wisdom

French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#character #french #german #grammatical #illustrate

It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#communication #essentially #illusion #imagine #incidental

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#democratic system #form #government #illusion #live

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#eternal #illusion #life #lose #meaning

We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something like that. But, at least in my experience, you are often more like a river-rafting guide who's been paid a bonus to purposely steer your clients into the roughest possible water. ↗

— George Saunders

#bonus #character #clients #convey #deciding

Be able to draw an illustration as least well enough to get your point across to another person. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#across #another #draw #enough #get

I think when somebody's painting they don't necessarily... I'm not illustrating what I know. I'm mapping out, like topographically, some terrain I am satisfied with, how awkward that mark is. ↗

— Julian Schnabel

#awkward #how #i #i am #i think

Ultimately, it's an illusion that you can understand yourself. ↗

— Paul Schrader

#ultimately #understand #you #yourself

The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine. ↗

— John Scott

#artist #between #complex #confrontation #critic