Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.
I believe in illusion - I don't believe in magic.
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.
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.'
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
There is no doubt whatsoever that the universe is the merest illusion.
Ultimately, it's an illusion that you can understand yourself.
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.