“I like the idea that we build up these walls or rules or laws to maintain our reality, and when they fall away, you're left with a whole bunch of illusions.” IdeasWholeRealityLawFallLeftWallIllusionBunch Author:Sarah McLachlan
“Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world--the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law. They all wear black, too, for are they not in mourning for every virtue and every illusion?” ThinkingMenWorldLawThreeBlackVirtueModernTypeIllusionMourningPriestsPhysiciansAttorneyModern Society Author:Honore de Balzac
“Symons remarked that the most common and unhelpful illusion plaguing those who came to see him was the idea that they ought somehow, in the normal course of events, to have intuited long before they had finished their degrees, started families, bought houses and risen to the top of law firms - what they should properly be doing with their lives. They were tormented by a residual notion of having through some error or stupidity on their part missed out on their true calling.” ShouldLongIdeasLawCoursesHouseCommonEventsOughtCallingDegreesNormalIllusionErrorsNotionStupidityFinishedFirmRisenResidualLaw Firms Author:Alain de Botton
“All of our punishment institutions, including jails, laws, church confessionals, and so forth, are systems of illusion. The order of the universe, the infinite justice of yin and yang, naturally takes care of all motion and compensation. We don't need to invent arbitrary ways to make balance with punishments.” WayNeedsCareLawOrderUniverseChurchJusticeBalanceIllusionInfiniteInstitutionsIncludingTake CarePunishmentJailArbitraryCompensationInventingYangYin And Yang Author:Michio Kushi
“It is one of the most fatal illusions that, by substituting negotiations between states or organized groups for competition for markets or for raw materials, international friction would be reduced. This would merely put a contest of force in the place of what can only metaphorically be called the "struggle" of competition and would transfer to powerful and armed states, subject to no superior law, the rivalries which between individuals had to be decided without recourse to force.” StatesWould BeLawIndividualForcePowerfulStruggleGroupsSubjectsMaterialsIllusionDecidedCompetitionInternationalSuperiorsOrganizedContestsNegotiationTransfersRivalryRaw MaterialsFrictionRecourseRoad To Serfdom Author:Friedrich August von Hayek