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"It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false."
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"Everything that deceives may be said to enchant."

"Tomorrow is an illusion suggesting that another chance always exists. It is a dangerously false illusion."

"Almost every single thing you hope publication will do for you is a fantasy, a hologram--it's the eagle on your credit card that only seems to soar."

"Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience."

"Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this well enough, and in the Buddhist Yoga an exact technique was devised for unmasking the illusion of the personality. The human merry-go-round sees many changes: the illusion that cost India the efforts of thousands of years to unmask is the same illusion that the West has labored just as hard to maintain and strengthen."

"What I say is misdirection, what you see is an illusion and what results is magic."

"Magic and miracle they are nothing but manipulation of sight and heart."
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"It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling."

"There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought."

"I am a good Protestant, and in the full sense of the term, for from the bottom of my soul, I protest against everything that is said, and everything that is done."

"There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought."

"It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false."
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