Source: The Fountainhead
As quoted in Federalism and the French Canadians (1968) by Pierre Trudeau, p. 175
“All the people we used to know, they're an illusion to me now…”
Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), Tangled Up In Blue
The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself, Random House, 1983, p. 86.
Source: Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge (1997), p. 178
Source: The Joy Luck Club (1989), Ch. 7, pg. 121
Source: Healing Our World: In An Age of Aggression, (2003), p. 92
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), Conclusion : Don Quixote in the Contemporary European Tragi-Comedy
Context: The philosophy of Bergson, which is a spiritualist restoration, essentially mystical, medieval, Quixotesque, has been called a demi-mondaine philosophy. Leave out the demi; call it mondaine, mundane. Mundane — yes, a philosophy for the world and not for philosophers, just as chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone. The world desires illusion (mundus vult decipi) — either the illusion antecedent to reason, which is poetry, or the illusion subsequent to reason, which is religion. And Machiavelli has said that whosoever wishes to delude will always find someone willing to be deluded. Blessed are they who are easily befooled!
“And don't despise your betters cause they're old.”
"The Cross Roads; or, The Haymaker's Story"
Poems Chiefly from Manuscript
