Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece
Concerning a Person whom he treated with Disregard, Chap. xxiv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Illusion or play. Everything agreeable is in them.”
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French moralist and essayist 1754–1824Related quotes
“Games are enactments, and the act of playing is an illusion of the illusion of the reality”
Gianni Sarcone (1962) Italian author, artist, designer, and researcher in visual perception and cognitive psychology
Make Your Own 3D Illusions (2014).
Context: We long for a technological world, while keeping the natural aspect of our environment; we want the progress, while maintaining the traditions; we want organization while preserving individual freedom; we produce at a large scale while looking for unique products; we want clearness in our relationships, while we like to play with the ambiguity; we wish everlasting happiness while seeking incomparable magic moments… In reality, from all these contradictions, we are looking for only one thing: ASTONISHMENT. We would life to astonish us every day! That’s why we all, human beings, love playing, because games are synonymous of risk and astonishment. Games are enactments, and the act of playing is an illusion of the illusion of the reality.
“For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion.”
Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools
Introduction to Ward's English Poets (1880)
Context: For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
“Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.”
David Icke (1952) English writer and public speaker
Variant: Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.
Source: Davidicke.com
“What’s real is what’s valuable. Everything else is just an illusion.”
Karl Schroeder (1962) Author. Technology consultant
Source: Lady of Mazes (2005), Chapter 17 (p. 183).
Van Morrison (1945) Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician
Enlightenment
Song lyrics, Enlightenment (1990)
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
No. 412 (23 June 1712).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
Lytton Strachey (1880–1932) British writer
Hugh Kingsmill The Progress of a Biographer (1949) p. 7.
Criticism
"Selections from the Allen Notebooks".
Without Feathers (1975)
