Official truths are often powerful illusions.
Illusions Quotes
It is our illusions that create the world.
Rob the average man of his life-illusion and you rob him also of his happiness.
All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.
Once upon a time, I dreamed I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither. Suddenly I awakened, and there I lay, myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.
We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.
The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduces them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.
The unknown always seems sublime.
