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.
Alan Watts
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein
Illusions fall away, like the peels of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience.
Gérard de Nerval
Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Birth of Tragedy
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 - The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
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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