Sentence examples for persistent illusion from inspiring English sources

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion".

As Einstein once wrote, "People like us, who believe in physics, know the distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion".

Yet the human concerns of prestige and power tend to hide behind the economic values of productivity and prosperity, with the persistent illusion that one will easily pass for the other.

Einstein, in a letter to a bereaved friend, wrote (as if it provided some comfort): "People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion".

He says some smart things about Fitzgerald's imagery — about, for instance, how ambiguous the idea of light is in his writing, so that the green light at the end of the dock is a portent of the shining illusory screen of the movies, standing for persistent illusion as much as for romantic aspiration.

He even consoled a friend's widow by saying that "people like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion".For time to be "real", in Mr Smolin's sense, it cannot be relative.

It was in Uncle Hilary that Olivia wrote of love: "Love is the worst slavery that exists ... it is the most persistent of illusions".

The flimsiest but most seductive and persistent of those illusions, which the women's-wear industry now treats as a sacred truth, is that the essence of being in fashion is to live dangerously.

For the New York state of mind in the 60's Ms. Riley's main offense must have been her persistent involvement with optical illusion at a time when "the flatness of the picture plane" was the mantra on either side of the Color Field-Minimalist aisle.

In Washington, the conviction that removing obstreperous leaders, whether adversaries like Saddam Hussein or "friends" like Hosni Mubarak, facilitates Washington's ability to steer events remains the most persistent — and dangerous — of illusions.

But the illusion persists.