#illusion

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

— Javan

#illusion #just #just be #magic #sometimes

The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion. ↗

— Talib Kweli

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We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of. ↗

— Talib Kweli

#affairs #aware #destroying #doing #foreign

Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired. ↗

— Joseph Roux

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained. ↗

— Joseph Roux

#comprises #gained #illusions #lost #rather

Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#drop #everybody #illusions #later #luggage

Wisdom comes by disillusionment. ↗

— George Santayana

#disillusionment #wisdom

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

I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion. ↗

— William Scott

#am #concerned #expectation #flat #i

Just as the 99% of Soviet citizens who supported the Soviet regime in 1985 was no indication of what the people inside the USSR really thought, the army of true believers that we think we see in the Arab world is an illusion. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#arab world #army #believers #citizens #illusion