Sentence examples for from illusions from inspiring English sources

You are led from illusions of vastness and emptiness, to places of intimacy, in which you feel like a voyeur.

Consciousness, says Boston philosopher Dan Dennett, is an illusion – just the noise that neurons make, although it is hard to see how something that is not itself conscious could suffer from illusions.

In Arnold's view, Leopardi's "pure and sure touch, with his fineness of perception," made him "far more of the artist" than his contemporaries, the English Romantics: Leopardi had "wider culture" and "more freedom from illusions" than Wordsworth, a greater "power of seizing the real point" than Byron.

Growing up in his grandfather's house (Wahnfried, or "peace from illusions"), his wrestling-ground was the Master's grave in the back garden, his dressing-up costume a Nibelung's cloak and horned helmet, and his playroom the prop-store at Richard Wagner's own Festspielhaus on the green hill, among the wooden models of gods awaiting their downfall.

Emerson will not tell us so, but we need to juxtapose this sentence from "Illusions" with the aphorism I quoted earlier from "Self-Reliance": "As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect".

Most conflict, whether on a personal or collective level, stem from illusions.

Faced with the collapse of Jewish assimilation, Arendt turned to Zionism as an "escape route from illusion into reality, from mendacity and self-deception to an honest existence".

This is an exit from illusion," said Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to state television".Praise from Iran is, of course, the last thing the president needs in an election season.

With the play of muscles as he knotted and looped his limbs, shifting through positions, it became difficult at times to separate reality from illusion.

"Oh, who can divide dream from reality, day from night, night from dawn, memory from illusion?" writes Danilo Kis in his story The Legend of the Sleepers.

But first I had to discover that I am an invisible man!" Ellison has described the novel as "a journey from illusion to reality".