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Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.

To fake it is to stand guard over emptiness.

The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That's the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That's worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth.

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.

We all need illusions. That's why we love movies.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

I like illusion when it is so convincing that we might as well see reality this way - I like to present to our belief system something that is convincing, that 'we know not to be.'

There is no doubt whatsoever that the universe is the merest illusion.