It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.
John Keats | Illusion
Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.
Friedrich Nietzsche – Truth, Illusion
For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities – a willing movement of a man’s soul with the larger sweep of the world’s forces – a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.
George Eliot – Illusion
The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life.
Sigmund Freud – Illusion, Power
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
