Quote of Gérard de Nerval - Illusions fall away, like the peels...
Biography - Gérard de Nerval:
French writer and poet.
Born: 1808 - Died: 1855
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: France
Born: 1808 - Died: 1855
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: France
Illusions fall away, like the peels of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience.
Translation
(French)
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Quotes for: experience
What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
Quotes for: illusion
A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.
The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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