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The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue.... Moreover this activity ...
What seems to be, is, to those to whom
It seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful
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Pray look better, Sir ... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
We must select the Illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.
For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities--a willing movement of a man's soul w ...
... effective magic is transcendent nature ...
What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various obj ...
The most important quality of art and its aim is illusion; emotion, which is often obtained by certain sacrifices of poetic detail ...
I hadn't an illusion in my handbag
About the people being better there
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Many hammer all over the wall and believe that with each blow they hit the nail on the head.
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