Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Sigmund FreudTags: strength desires illusion
Wish You Were Here
So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell,
Blue skys from pain.
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?
And did they get you to trade
Your heros for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?
How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl,
Year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found?
The same old fears.
Wish you were here.
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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Saul BellowTags: intelligence self-deception ignorance illusion avoidance
[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.
Clive BarkerTags: truth reality horror illusion chaos oblivion
There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.
Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck.
Joss WhedonTags: life understanding illusion focus
Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?
Virginia WoolfNo, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.
Sigmund FreudTags: science inspirational future progress knowledge hope understanding illusion gains
The desert and the ocean are realms of desolation on the surface.
The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust.
The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.
Inside out and outside in. These are worlds of things that implode or explode, and the only catalyst that determines the direction of eco-movement is the balance of water.
Both worlds are deceptive, dangerous. Both, seething with hidden life.
The only veil that stands between perception of what is underneath the desolate surface is your courage.
Dare to breach the surface and sink.
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The truth, my friend, is an awesome thing, to be handled with wisdom and with courage denied to ordinary people. Most of us must make do with illusions. Or else -- or else we could not endure.
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