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«Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.»
Author: Chamfort | Keywords: illusion, pleasure
«The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.»
«No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.»
«Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.»
Author: Sigmund Freud (Founder) | About: Religion | Keywords: derives, deriving, desires, falls, illusion
«The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion»
«Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one»
«Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.»
Author: Albert Einstein (Physicist) | About: Reality | Keywords: illusion, persistent
«Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.»
«There is an old illusion-it is called good and evil.»
«The most dangerous thing is illusion.»

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