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«Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.»
«Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.»
Author: Ludwig Borne | Keywords: finding, illusion, losing, wiser
«A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality»
«A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart»
«Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool»
«Illusion is the first of all pleasures.»
«Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.»
«Either Christianity is true or it's false. If you bet that it's true, and you believe in God and submit to Him, then if it IS true, you've gained God, heaven, and everything else. If it's false, you've lost nothing, but you've had a good life marked by peace and the illusion that ultimately, everything makes sense. If you bet that Christianity is not true, and it's false, you've lost nothing. But if you bet that it's false, and it turns out to be true, you've lost everything and you get to spend eternity in hell.»
«A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.»
«Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want»

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