“Only the idolatrous and the weak have need of illusion as of a remedy.”
Light (1919), Ch. XXIII - Face To Face
Context: Only the idolatrous and the weak have need of illusion as of a remedy. The rest only need see and speak.
She smiles, vague as an angel, hovering in the purity of the evening between light and darkness. I am so near to her that I must kneel to be nearer still. I kiss her wet face and soft lips, holding her hand in both of mine.
Yes, there is a Divinity, one from which we must never turn aside for the guidance of our huge inward life and of the share we have as well in the life of all men. It is called the truth.
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French novelist 1873–1935Related quotes
“In all the illusions, you're the only truth that I need”
Source: Honest Illusions
spiegel.de http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/spiegel-interview-with-ecb-president-mario-draghi-a-941489.html.
“If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?”
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)
“The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.”
Source: The Foretelling
“Streetlife serenaders
Have no obligations
Hold no grand illusions
Need no stimulation.”
Streetlife Serenader.
Song lyrics, Streetlife Serenade (1974)
“We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions.”
Preface
The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961)
Context: We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.
p. 96 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89009314162&view=1up&seq=100
Determinism or Free-will? (1912)
“Wedding Day”, Earthly Paradise (1966) ed. Robert Phelps