Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of illusions.
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For it is a land of illusion, a place in the mind, a shimmering mirage of riches and mystery and death. These illusions have distorted its landscape and contorted its history.
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Let us suppose, then, that we are dreaming, and that all these particulars namely, the opening of the eyes, the motion of the head, the forth putting of the hands are merely illusions; and even that we really possess neither an entire body nor hands su
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Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
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It is natural for a man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut out eyes against a painful truth and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms into beasts.
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One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.
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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
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The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action
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My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress, I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve!
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We are missing something. Our youth today is empty. No longer do the children dream and believe they can change the world. Apathy has destroyed the beautiful idealism of our youth. The intricate illusions and fearless aspirations. The gleam in a child's eye. God help us. All hope is truly lost.
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I do not deny the rights of democracy, but I have no illusions as to the uses that will be made of those rights so long as wisdom is rare and pride abundant
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What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions
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Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance.
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I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there's some kind of change.
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He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity
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It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts.. For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.
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Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
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It is our illusions that create the world
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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.
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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do
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It is respectable to have illusions - and safe - and profitable, and dull
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Life is full of obstacle illusions.
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Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.
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Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions.
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When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions; that is the heart of science.
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