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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
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.
The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.
I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.
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.
Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.
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