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"It is a curious fact that of all the illusions that beset mankind none is quite so curious as that tendency to suppose that we are mentally and morally superior to those who differ from us in opinion."
"Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other. Which is what I do every day. An apparently ineffectual operation, since I must begin all over again the next day."
"Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech."
"There's no point in clinging to illusions."
"This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got."
"What does not contain love must contain an illusion."
"Art is a never-ending dance of illusions."
"I think it's an injustice that most consumers going to the supermarket have so few options for fruit and vegetables to feed their families. There might be the appearance of abundance, but it's an illusion."
"Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists."
"The wind shifts like this: Like a human without illusions, Who still feels irrational things within her."
""Fun to drive" is a pleasant illusion in most places robustly inhabited where "safe to drive" makes much more sense."
"You cannot escape one infinite, I told myself, by fleeing to another. You cannot escape the revelation of the identical by taking refuge in the illusion of the multiple."
"Trying to be happy in this world is greatest illusion."
"Humility sets us free to do what is really good, by showing us our illusions and withdrawing our will from what was only an apparent good."
"The center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth."
"That's the question: is truth an illusion, or is illusion truth, or are they essentially the same? Myself, I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true."
"Maybe anything that anybody ever has is for now. What happened before is gone, and what will happen later is an illusion."
"Suffering dispels the illusion that we have the strength and competence to rule our own lives and save ourselves."
"...perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinction. Apart from the fact that no penalty is imposed for not sharing them, my illusions are not, like religious ones, incapable of correction."
"The seduction of safety is always more dangerous than the illusion of uncertainty."
