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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.»
Author: Alan Watts
(Interpreter, Thinker, Writer)
| About:
Illusion,
Time
| Keywords:
illusions, realized
«Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.»
«It is our illusions that create the world»
«The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place»
«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.»
Author: Patrick Henry
(Lawyer)
| About:
Hope,
Illusion,
Mankind
| Keywords:
Against A, anguish, anguished, anguishes, apt, beasts, cost, illusions, indulge, indulges, painful, provide, provide for, shut, siren, Sirens, song, The Song of, The Whole Truth, transforms
«We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy»
Author: Cyril Connolly
| About:
Happiness,
Illusion,
Justice
| Keywords:
appeals, embrace, select, temperament
«The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.»
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
| About:
Ignorance,
Illusion,
Obstacles
| Keywords:
continents, discovering, obstacle, oceans
«It is respectable to have illusions - and safe - and profitable, and dull»
«Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.»
Author: Thomas More
(Chancellor, Humanist, Statesman)
| About:
Illusion,
Love,
Romantic love
| Keywords:
affair, flames, love affair, or else, romantic, romantic love, The Sweet, turn down
«Illusion is the first of the pleasures»
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