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“In course of time the slow advance of knowledge, which has dispelled so many cherished illusions, convinced at least the more thoughtful portion of mankind that the alterations of summer and winter, of spring and autumn, were not merely the result of their own magical rites, but that some deeper cause, some mightier power, was at work behind the shifting scenes of nature.”

Courses Causes Results Behinds Mankind Scene Summer Spring Illusion Winter Deeper Convinced Thoughtful Autumn Portions Shifting Rite Alterations Summer And Winter

Author:James G. Frazer

“We must shed the illusion that we can deliberately "create the future of mankind." This is the final conclusion of the forty years which I have now devoted to the study of these problems”

Years Problem Study Mankind Illusion Finals Conclusion Forty Devoted Shed Future Of Mankind

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“College education gives you the chance to earn money and live thereupon. But, umless it destroys certain illusions that are nourished by the common level of mankind, your lives will not be happy.”

Giving Certain Chance Levels Common Mankind College Illusion Educational College Education

Author:Sai Baba

“It is a curious fact that of all the illusions that beset mankind none is quite so curious as that tendency to suppose that we are mentally and morally superior to those who differ from us in opinion.”

Facts Opinion Mankind Illusion Superiors Tendencies Curious

Book:Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers ...: John Wesley. Henry George. Garibaldi. Richard Cobden. Thomas Paine. John Knox

Source: Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers ...: John Wesley. Henry George. Garibaldi. Richard Cobden. Thomas Paine. John Knox

“We must shed the illusion that we can deliberately 'create the future of mankind'”

Mankind Illusion Shed Future Of Mankind

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“These [religious ideas] are given out as teachings, are not precipitates of experience or end-results of thinking: they are illusions, fullfilments of the oldest, strongest and most urgent wishes of mankind.”

Thinking Ideas Ends Given Wish Religious Results Teaching Mankind Illusion Strongest Urgent End Results

Author:Sigmund Freud

“For a man’s life would become intolerable, if he knew what was going to happen to him. He would be made aware of future evils, and would suffer their agonies in advance, while he would get no joy of present blessings since he would know how they would end. Ignorance is the necessary condition of human happiness, and it has to be admitted that on the whole mankind observes that condition well. We are almost entirely ignorant of ourselves; absolutely of others. In ignorance, we find our bliss; in illusions, our happiness.”

Ifs Knows Men Humans Wells Made Ends Whole Happens Would Be Joy Suffering Evil Know How Conditions Mankind Ignorance Blessing Illusion Ignorant Bliss Agony Human Happiness

Author:Anatole France