“The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free.”
Laura Anne Gilman book Flesh and Fire
Source: Flesh and Fire (2009), p. 304
“The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free.”
Laura Anne Gilman book Flesh and Fire
Source: Flesh and Fire (2009), p. 304
“The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.”
Aleksandr Pushkin (1799–1837) Russian poet
The Hero ll. 64-65, quoted in Gooseberries by Anton Chekhov
“We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane.”
Tariq Ali (1943) British Pakistani writer, journalist, and historian
Commentary essay, "For one day only, I'm a Lib Dem: We must take the politics of the anti-war front into the electoral arena," The Guardian, March 26, 2005 http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1445964,00.html#article_continue.
“The true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions we uncover the laws of truth.”
Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858–1937) Bengali polymath, physicist, biologist, botanist and archaeologist
Quotations by 60 Greatest Indians, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology http://resourcecentre.daiict.ac.in/eresources/iresources/quotations.html,
Gustave Le Bon (1841–1931) French psychologist
Source: Psychologie des Foules [The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind] (1895)
“Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?”
Edith Wharton book The House of Mirth
Source: The House of Mirth