I harbor no illusion that government and elected office is a panacea for all of society's ills.
That time is important. It gives a comforting illusion of permanence not found in running by the mile.
Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.
It's all kind of a big illusion: the white picket fence and the perfect marriage and the kids. Check that box off, check that box off, and move forward.
Guilt is a poisonous illusion. Many languages don't even have a word for guilt. Sure, we all feel it. But we also get to decide if we're going to let guilt bring us down or not. Acknowledge the feelings, and then give yourself permission to let them go.
All politics to me - Indian or white - is an illusion preventing us from being authentic because we're communicating through something that isn't real to us.
Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.
When the Bible and the Gospels say that the victims should have been spared, they do not merely 'take pity' on them. They puncture the illusion of the unanimous victimization that foundational myths use as a crisis-solving and reordering device of human communities.
When we make purchases on credit, they give us only an illusion of prosperity.
Workplace romances - or even the illusion of a workplace romance - can carry many ramifications and consequences.
I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse.
We're nondenominational. I come from Northern Ireland, and we've had religious wars for years. I didn't want to create an illusion that my God is better than your God. So our show is a spiritual show, not a religious show.
Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.
No Christians I know who are supporting Trump are under the illusion that The Donald is a seasoned student of Scripture.
When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction.
Speculative markets have always been vulnerable to illusion. But seeing the folly in markets provides no clear advantage in forecasting outcomes, because changes in the force of the illusion are difficult to predict.
Now there was no wonder in the Statue of Liberty illusion because he, Copperfield, attempted to do something so large that it stretched the credibility of the audience to the point where most people didn't believe any of it anymore.
I am a Sufi guy, so fame is maya for me, a worldly illusion.
A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.
There is the illusion of the world and the reality of the Torah.