Top 1200 Illusion Of Choice Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Whether it is a simulated experience or a dream, the information that exists is all real... and an illusion at the same time.

Wherever desire exists ego exists, and wherever ego exists illusion exists because ego is the greatest illusion there is. Even in a beggar who has nothing else you will find the same ego as you will find in Alexander the Great, because desiring is the same. Alexander the Great may have much money and much power, that does not matter; he is still desiring. The beggar may not have anything, but he is also desiring.

The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

One thing that has become clear over the last several days is that we no longer have 135 choices to make. It's really one choice likely to emerge from question number two, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and that leaves the voters with a clear choice. They can retain Gray Davis as governor, or they can elect Arnold Schwarzenegger and his crew from Pete Wilson to run the governor's office.

Our people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness. Before my time, before the previous time, back and back and back. We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with difference. We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.

We manufacture anger to give ourselves the illusion of power when we feel weak and helpless.

The rules of magic, my dear, are best not discusses. For once we understand the illusion, we no longer believe it.

No Christians I know who are supporting Trump are under the illusion that The Donald is a seasoned student of Scripture.

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.

It's a false illusion that we wake up thinking of who we are in terms of identity and that we are stuck in the boundaries of who we are nationalistically.

Life is a process of losing our illusions, until we finally lose the illusion that we're alive.

The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.

Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion.

There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion - a false hope.

Do not feel that you are destined to enlightenment in this life. You have no idea. This is an illusion of selfhood. It's gross ignorance and egotism.

I used to be pro-choice."..."I was once pro-choice and the thing that changed my mind was, I read my husband's biology books, medical books, and what I learned . . . At the moment of conception, a life starts. And this life has its own unique set of DNA, which contains a blueprint for the whole genetic makeup. The sex is determined. We know there's a life because it's growing and changing.

The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.

If the Internet can be described as a giant human consciousness, then viral marketing is the illusion of free will.

Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.

Change is an illusion because we're always at the place where any future can take us.

The trick was looking past the illusion, because the exit was never as far away as it seemed.

The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.

Forgiving the past means remembering the love there, and releasing all the rest as the illusion that it really was.

What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.

Exercise is the most awful illusion. The secret is a lot of aspirin and marrons glaces.

The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno .

The anoretic operates under the astounding illusion that she can escape the flesh, and, by association, the realm of emotions.

I think Jorge Borges said that when Argentineans die they turn into angels and go and live in Uruguay. But for the rest of South America, you have to say that it's getting there - becoming civilized - and will get there. It's had a real grit war in history. The choice between those societies until recently was the choice between tyranny and chaos. Everyone understood that. You've got to have a strong man, or it's going to be a mess.

I am the Mindfreak, there's no Reality! Just this World of Illusion that keeps on haunting me.

Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

Every life has a watershed moment, an instant when you realize you're about to make a choice that will define everything else you ever do, and that if you choose wrong, there may not be that many things left to choose. Sometimes the wrong choice is the only one that lets you face the end with dignity, grace, and the awareness that you're doing the right thing. I'm not sure we can recognize those moments until they've passed us.

A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.

There is nothing easy about becoming conscious. My own life was much easier before I knew about the deeper meaning of choice, the power of choice that accompanies taking responsibility. Abdicating responsibility to an outside source can seem, at least for the moment, so much easier. Once you know better, however, you can't get away with kidding yourself for long.

No magic formula can completely prepare us for crises in life. However, each choice we make now will impact how we handle those crises in the future. Make your choice count. Dedicate time each day to developing your character. If you do, courage will be there when you need it most.

Fear is the illusion that I have some control over the bad things that might happen to me.

Ash Wednesday is full of joy...The source of all sorrow is the illusion that of ourselves we are anything but dust.

'Grand Illusion' and 'Rules of the Game' are routinely included on lists of the greatest films, and deserve to be.

This phantom world gave you false signs But you turned from the illusion and journeyed to the land of truth.

An illusion has been created that Gujarat is the top performing state in the country in all facets. But that is not true.

Leaders dig into their business to learn painful realities rather than peaceful illusion.

Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression.

If, for a moment, it seemed that September 11th could be identified with Iraq, the illusion was short-lived.

The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.

You can’t stop a revolution from breathin’, so to beat ‘em they offer people the illusion of freedom.

I continue with the illusion of serving Colombia. Only God knows if it were to be from the presidency.

I am always torn. Between control and chaos; passion and tranquility. Between what's fated and what I want. Part of me longs to take the plunge, to dive off headfirst and let the feeling of control evaporate on the wind. And part of me wants to be in a place where I'd never have to worry about that choice--or any choice. Where peace and calm are the only things I'd feel.

All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion.

This craving for health, wealth, long life, and the like - the so - called good - is nothing but an illusion.

We may think that our tradition is exactly the same as it has always been, but that is an illusion.

No one thinks Las Vegas is real; it is illusion, but visitors willingly suspend disbelief and pretend.

When one sees that everything exists as an illusion, one can live in a higher sphere than ordinary man.

As human beings, when we're young, we're not jaded. As we grow older, we begin to take on ideas of our parents, family of origins and that changes us. We become less fluid sometimes. So for me, I look for roles that are uplifting in many ways - no matter what the race or color of the role is. I want to go beyond that and try to share what I think my gift is and that is we all have this gift of choice. We just don't sometimes realize we have that choice.

A book no more contains reality than a clock contains time. A book may measure so-called reality as a clock measures so-called time; a book may create an illusion of reality as a clock creates an illusion of time; a book may be real, just as a clock is real (both more real, perhaps, than those ideas to which they allude); but let's not kid ourselves - all a clock contains is wheels and springs and all a book contains is sentences.

The whole thing's illusion, [Jacob], and there's nothing wrong with that. It's what people want from us. It's what they expect.

I think technology gives the illusion that you are connecting with people, social media particularly.

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.

The saddest illusion of the revolutionary is that revolution itself will transform the nature of human beings.

His middle name's Pax. When he's older, if he wants to go by Paxton, Pax, Tiger, he has that choice. So, he has no choice not to be average with a name like that. It could go horribly wrong - he could be a DJ in the Midwest with the name Tiger - we'll see.

None of this is real. All of this is an illusion and your acceptance of that fact is the beginning of the pathway to self-knowledge.