#illusion

You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values. ↗

— Peter Abrahams

#culture #each #given #his #history

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. ↗

— Scott Adams

#choose #free #free will #greatest #greatest pleasure

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#deep #great #great deal #ignorance #illusion

We all need illusions. That's why we love movies. ↗

— Monica Bellucci

#love #movies #need #why

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

#bread #his #hope #illusion #man

The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

#great #great war #progressive #revelation #war

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#cannot #establish #illusion #most #pernicious

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#albeit #illusion #merely #persistent #reality

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#emptiness #illusion #needed #within

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#feeling #illusions #live #person