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Illusion Quotes by Simone Weil
- Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.
- Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
- He who does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures nor love as…
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- A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too… — Sai Baba
- He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity. — Mikhail Bakunin
- People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact,… — David Brinkley
- One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities - a willing movement of… — George Eliot
- One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity. — C.S. Lewis
- There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That's part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those… — Yo-Yo Ma
- I used to think things were the way they are for a reason, that there was some hidden meaning. I used to… — Delphine de Vigan