Antonin Scalia
Judge
"It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one."
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Illusion
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Marlene Dietrich
Actress, Singer
"You can't live without illusions, even if you must fight for them."
W. Somerset Maugham
Novelist, Playwright
"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."
Aleister Crowley
Occultist, Writer
"Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"There is an optical illusion about every person we meet."
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"As long as we prioritize material truths over spiritual truths we will live in tyranny because we are living an illusion"
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"The greatest illusion is that mankind has limitations."
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"Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me."
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"Feel not as though it is a sphere we live on. Rather, an infinite plane which has the illusion of leading yourself back to the point of origin."
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"Illusion is no longer possible, because the real is no longer possible."
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"When you are free from delusion, you can enjoy illusion. Enjoy the dream but enjoy the dream being free."
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"The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future."
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"I’ve learned that fear is simply an illusion based on past experiences that we project into the present and onto the future."
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"Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion."
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"There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil."
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"Everything's fine today, that is our illusion."
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"We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane."
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"Change is eminent, control is an illusion, but dreams are eternal. Believe in your dreams!"
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"An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality."
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"Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead."
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"We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness."
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"We wake from one dream into another dream."
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"All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all."
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"It is an illusion to think that the matter can be resolved through words."
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"Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love."
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