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Mirages Quotes

I am certain, however, that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.

I am certain, however, that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.

"New Studies in Philosophy, Politics, Economics and the History of Ideas". Book by Friedrich Hayek. Part 2: "Politics". Chapter 8: "Economic Freedom and Representative Government", pp. 110-111, 1978.

Today is all we have, tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.

Louis L'Amour (2005). “The Walking Drum”, p.146, Bantam

The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.

Paul Ricoeur, Denis Savage (2008). “Freud and Philosophy: An Essay on Interpretation”, p.379, Motilal Banarsidass Publishe

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

Will Durant (2011). “The Reformation: The Story of Civilization”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

Perpetual encagement endows any mirage of salvation with credibility.

David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.193, Random House

You can't go from a $2,000-a-night suite at La Mirage to a penitentiary, and really understand it, and come out a liberal.

"Been Up, Been Down. Now? Super". Interview with David Carr, www.nytimes.com. April 20, 2008.

For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!

F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West (2005). “Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940”, p.115, Cambridge University Press