“On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama.”
Source: Tropic of Cancer
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American novelist 1891–1980Related quotes
“Prose is private drama; poetry is corporate drama.”
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
Source: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 275
“Truth and expansion go hand in hand. Truth creates growth. Lies and illusion prevent it.”
Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher
“For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion.”
Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools
Introduction to Ward's English Poets (1880)
Context: For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
“In all the illusions, you're the only truth that I need”
Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer
Source: Honest Illusions
“Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.”
David Icke (1952) English writer and public speaker
Variant: Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.
Source: Davidicke.com
Nikolai Berdyaev (1874–1948) Russian philosopher
As translated at Gallery of Russian Thinkers … selected by Dmitry Olshansky (2005)<!-- by Richard Schain --> http://www.isfp.co.uk/russian_thinkers/nikolay_berdyaev.html <br class="br">Dream and Reality (1949) <br class="br">Context: There is no objective reality. But there is only an illusion of consciousness, there is only an objectivication of reality, which was created by the spirit. The origin of life is creativity, freedom; and the personality, subject, and spirit are the representatives of that origin, but not the nature, not the object.
“Men do not move mountains; it is only necessary to create the illusion that mountains move.”
Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) Duce and President of the Council of Ministers of Italy. Leader of the National Fascist Party and subsequen…
As quoted in The Great Illusion, 1900-1914, Oron J. Hale, Harper & Row (1971) p. 109
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“All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.”
Ram Dass (1931–2019) American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now