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A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a ju

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it. – Bertrand Russell

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Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance. – Bertrand Russell

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Knowledge
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Bertrand Russell
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Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely because they regard such departures as a criticism of themselves. – Bertrand Russell

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Tradition
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Illusion
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The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life. – Sigmund Freud

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Illusion

Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not. – E. R. Beadle

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Illusion

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull. – Joseph Conrad

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Illusion

Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people. – Kurt Vonnegut

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Illusion

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But most good movies have a gun in them. – David Sedaris

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movies

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse. – Charles V

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God

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. – Willa Cather

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Generations

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly. – Mason Cooley

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Wisdom