Illusions Quotes
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The commonsense rules of the "real world" are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions.
Tim Ferriss
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Forgiveness is key to enchanted love because it is key to living right, period. It is the capacity to see beyond the veil of personality and worldly illusions. No one is perfect or attractive every day. Forgiveness means we are capable of relating to someone on a deeper level than the ordinary self. And that we are committed to doing so no matter what the appearances are, no matter what the situation is.
Marianne Williamson
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I am under no illusions. My position, no matter how clearly stated, is likely to be misunderstood.
David Benatar
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A woman can't be, until a girl dies. . . . I mean the sprites that girls are, so different from us, all their fancies, their illusions, their flower world, the dreams they live in.”
Christina Stead
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Doubt frees us from illusions of having captured God in a creed; it calls into question every religious symbol.
Ian Barbour
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Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
Joseph Conrad
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The principal task of friendship is to foster one`s friends` illusions.
Arthur Schnitzler
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Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question."
Sigmund Freud
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In course of time the slow advance of knowledge, which has dispelled so many cherished illusions, convinced at least the more thoughtful portion of mankind that the alterations of summer and winter, of spring and autumn, were not merely the result of their own magical rites, but that some deeper cause, some mightier power, was at work behind the shifting scenes of nature.
James G. Frazer
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Most fears are just illusions.
Gary Null
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Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.
Sigmund Freud
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But I cannot forget that, at other times I have been deceived in sleep by similar illusions; and, attentively considering those cases, I perceive so clearly that there exist no certain marks by which the state of waking can ever be distinguished from sleep, that I feel greatly astonished; and in amazement I almost persuade myself that I am now dreaming.
Rene Descartes