Sentences with phrase «dangerous illusion»
The phrase "dangerous illusion" refers to a false idea or belief that can be harmful or risky. It means believing in something that seems good or true but can actually lead to dangerous consequences. Full definition
«When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing» Bernard Baruch
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Kazuo Ishiguro, the Japanese - born British novelist who in «The Remains of the Day,» «Never Let Me Go» and other novels captured memory's lasting pain and dangerous illusions in precise and elegant prose, won the Nobel Literature Prize.
The Trivialization of God: The Dangerous Illusion of a Manageable Deity By Donald W. McCullough NavPress, 172 pages, $ 16 The president of San Francisco Theological Seminary offers a sprightly and at times disturbing critique of the many ways in which we try to domesticate God» fitting Him into our emotions, concepts, or social» political proclivities.
When we don't acknowledge these things it's too easy to fall under the spell of a dangerous illusion: an illusion that we are in control of our lives.
An idea, nothing more; Marcus Aurelius hints to Maximus that this idea of Rome may be nothing but a dangerous illusion, but Maximus rejects the thought, since he can't bear to consider that the deaths of his men in the Germanic wars were for nothing.
In fact, he calls the notion that America will forever be the economic powerhouse it is today a «dangerous illusion.»
I wrote for them: Forbidden Legacy, Captured Heart, Dangerous Illusions, and Stolen Heritage.
The latest trade of a security creates a dangerous illusion that its market price approximates its true value.
Here the idea of a «bottomless Earth» is an illusion — and dangerous illusion.