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Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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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.”
Gustave Le Bon
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The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
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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.”
Alan Watts
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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.”
Alan Watts
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The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
Albert Einstein
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The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
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