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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousands truths
Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet, playwright, and novelist (1799–1837)
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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet, playwright, and novelist (1799–1837)
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Dearer to me than a host of base truths is the illusion that exalts.
Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet, playwright, and novelist (1799–1837)
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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet, playwright, and novelist (1799–1837)
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Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions.
Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (1844–1900)
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Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis (1856–1939)
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Isn’t a miserable reality better than the most interesting illusion? Or is it illusion, Barney? I don’t know anything about philosophy; you explain it to me because all I know is religious faith and that doesn’t equip me to understand this.
Philip K. Dick, American science fiction author (1928–1982)
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Most of the time, we see only what we want to see, or what others tell us to see, instead of really investigate to see what is really there. We embrace illusions only because we are presented with the illusion that they are embraced by the majority. When in truth, they only become popular because they are pounded at us by the media with such an intensity and high level of repetition that its mere force disguises lies and truths. And like obedient schoolchildren, we do not question their validity and swallow everything up like medicine. Why? Because since the earliest days of our youth, we have been conditioned to accept that the direction of the herd, and authority anywhere — is always right.
Suzy Kassem
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Though many illusions are of a character we should gladly cherish, yet the sooner we lose some of them, the sooner we gain the power of seeing clearly into things. The one who possesses least has the best chance of becoming wise. The man who travels, and reflects, loses illusions faster than he who stays at home.
Henry Morton Stanley, British journalist and explorer (1841–1904)
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Everyone is mistaken, everyone lives in illusion. At best, we can admit a scale of fictions, a hierarchy of unrealities, giving preference to one rather than to another; but to choose, no, definitely not that...
Emil Cioran, Romanian-French philosopher and essayist (1911–1995)
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