No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.
Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
At the end of 'Illusions,' readers should see the inevitable coming.
The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.
Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as well be systematic, it's so thoroughly incentivised by our culture.
I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.
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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