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“Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.”

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Book:Major Works

Source: Major Works

“What gets frustrating for some people is the fact that you might get very high, but you find yourself pulled down again. There are forces of illusion or maya that cause us to make mistakes.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Illusions... are simple facts, but they have been created by the mind, by the spirit, and they are one of the justifications of the new spatial configuration.”

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Author:Georges Braque

“Anything you can say, think, feel, trust or feel is untrue - is an illusion. The fact that there are these things is an illusion.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“None of this is real. All of this is an illusion and your acceptance of that fact is the beginning of the pathway to self-knowledge.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“While we only look at Nature it is fair to say that Autumn is the end of the year; but it is still more true that Autumn is the beginning of the year.... Autumn is the time when in fact the leaves bud. Leaves wither because winter begins; but they also wither because spring is already beginning, because new buds are being made, as tiny as percussion caps out of which the spring will crack.... It is only an optical illusion that my flowers die in autumn; for in reality they are born.”

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Author:Karel Capek

“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.”

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Book:Poetry and Criticism of Matthew Arnold

Source: Poetry and Criticism of Matthew Arnold

“I believe from my many experiences that the spirit world is more real, more solid, than this earth in which we live. In truth, ours is a world of illusion. All that seems so solid is yet just a mass: molecules locked together, forming an impression of solid matter that in fact is not solid at all.”

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Author:Rosemary Altea

“Hallucinations and illusions are not facts useful for scientific investigation.”

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Author:Goparaju Ramachandra Rao