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“None of this has ever been or will ever be; all is an appearance, all is an illusion. Illusions are truth. All illusions are real. We say illusion, meaning that they're shadows.”

Real Ignorance Illusion Shadow Appearance Nothingness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is illusion, the way you see things now, thinking that there is a tomorrow, there is a today, there is time and that there is life and death. Those are just appearances”

Thinking Way Today Ignorance Tomorrow Illusion Appearance Life And Death

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Samsara is the world appearance, the cycle of rebirth, the physically manifest universes and states of mind that you perceive through the medium of ego.”

World Mind States Universe Ignorance Ego Appearance Mediums Perceive Cycles Manifest State Of Mind Rebirth Samsara

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Two large prominent eyes that rolled about to no purpose (for he was utterly short-sighted) a wide mouth, thick lips and inflated visage, gave him the air of a blind trumpeter. A deep untuneable voice which, instead of modulating, he enforced with unnecsessary pomp, a total neglect of his person, and ignorance of every civil attention, disgusted all who judge by appearance.”

Persons Two Eye Purpose Voice Attention Air Ignorance Judging Mouths Blind Lips Appearance Wide Neglect Thick Prominent Disgusted Short Sighted

Book:Horace Walpole: Memoirs and Portraits

Source: Horace Walpole: Memoirs and Portraits

“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.”

Source: Paine and Jefferson on Liberty

“All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be sceptical, or at least cautious, and not to admit of any hypothesis whatever, much less of any which is supported by no appearance of probability.”

Humans Understanding Ignorance Appearance Probability Hypothesis Cautious Obscurity

Book:The Philosophical Works: Including All the Essays, and Exhibiting the More Important Alterations and Corrections in the Successive Ed. Publ. by the Author

Source: The Philosophical Works: Including All the Essays, and Exhibiting the More Important Alterations and Corrections in the Successive Ed. Publ. by the Author

“He must be able to mystify his officers and men by false reports and appearances, and thus keep them in total ignorance.”

Men Art War Able Ignorance Appearance Reports Officers Art Of War

Book:The Art of War

Source: The Art of War

“The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.”

Ignorance Appearance Stupidity

Author:Voltaire

“Science and religion are very much alike. Both are imaginative and creative aspects of the human mind. The appearance of a conflict is a result of ignorance. We come to exist through a divine act. That divine guidance is a theme throughout our life; at our death the brain goes, but that divine guidance and love continues. Each of us is a unique, conscious being, a divine creation. It is the religious view. It is the only view consistent with all the evidence.”