illusion quotes from influential philosophers, authors and people
"The issue with any game - even this grand universe game - is that unless there is a possibility of defeat - and it has to be a 'real' defeat - there is no game. The grand game of all games is the game of life and death. If death didn't seem real, the game would be meaningless. Death seems like a real, genuine defeat because if it didn't, we would lose interest in the game."
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"A large part of what is real within us is not comprehended; and that which is comprehended is not real."
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"But I cannot forget that, at other times I have been deceived in sleep by similar illusions; and, attentively considering those cases, I perceive so clearly that there exist no certain marks by which the state of waking can ever be distinguished from sleep, that I feel greatly astonished; and in amazement I almost persuade myself that I am now dreaming."
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"Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires."
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"I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain."
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